You have already heard the news: some stadiums in South Africa will be blessed by means of animal sacrifice. This has agitated the animal rights activists, aroused the goth community, and inspired the cultural relativists debate. The complexity of the human rights/cultural norms issue exceeds the scope of this blog, so I will give lipservice to both sides and hop over to damning statistics of first world meat consumption.

A note: I presume that killing an animal for sacrifice vs. for meat is similar. But, of course, a survey of said animals is logistically impossible – due to linguistic difficulties and the fact they are dead. Dead and being digested in your stomach, you meat consuming monster.

In terms of beef, the US eats about 45 kilograms per capita a year. Conversely, South Africans eat about 13 kilograms per capita a year. Thus, the US consumes more than three times as much beef. Where’s the beef? US stomachs, not South Africa.

Now I know the symbolic response – the animals suffer greatly when sacrificed. I hate to burst your bubble, but the hormone-painkiller inducing meatmarket in the States is brutal.

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