Personally, I think a lot of these animal rights causes smell a bit. Of course people should treat animals with respect. They shouldn’t be used to test cosmetics or used to make music videos. But I don’t get the difference between eating some carrots and eating a rabbit. How much difference is there between cutting down trees to make a book and cooking up a lamb chop ?
Don’t misunderstand - I think groups like Greenpeace have done many brilliant things. But there are also problems with Greenpeace. When the orginization began, many of its members were from Germany. For them to march into Greenland and tell the indigenous people to stop killing seals is completly ridiculous.
What right have these people, from big industrial cities like Frankfurt, which contribute a lot of pollution, to tell people who live in harmony with nature not to eat seals ? What are they supposed to eat ? Snow ?
People always think the future is alien and cold. Just before Noah’s flood they all said, ’The future is doomed, we’re all doomed.’ It’s basically fear of change.
asked whether it was time for Iceland to get under the EU umbrella she replied :
Right now I would say it looks like it’s the only way.
I have talked to hundreds of start-up companies seeking to help Iceland remould its economy, formally based around fishing, in the hope of stopping large-scale and non-environmentally friendly exploitation of its energy reserves, such as through the recent setting up of massive aluminium smelters
All those I have spoken to say that at the top of the list, they need the euro to stabilise the currency, so I would go for that, because Icelandic unemployment could hit 20 percent by Christmas.
