Sunday, March 1, 2009

Granny Wolf's Argument on CCTV

Reporter: Good evening everyone, welcome to CCTV. We all heard about the horrible accident which happened last week: the two brothers of pig’s family were murdered by their close neighbor Alexander T. Wolf in the same day. Moreover, the suspect cruelly ate the victim’s body after he killed them. Piggy the third, the youngest brother was the only one who survived from this accident and was under police department’s protection. This crime shocks every resident who lives in the grand forest. The public are in panic and they are concerned about their families’ security. Today, a protest has taking place in the grand forest. Pigs, rabbits, puppies and other lovely little animals strongly urge the mayor to put on heavy restraints on wild animals such as tigers, wolves, and lions in order to protect their living rights. Let’s take a look

(Protest video)
Piggy the third (crying): This is the saddest year in my life. The big, bad wolf murdered my brothers, and he ate them! It is everyone’s nightmare. The wolf is cold-blood and they ought to be either locked in the jail or banned from the grand forest forever; otherwise, we would not have any peace of mind.

Bunny Rabbit (yelling): Yes. The big, wild animals are a serious threat to everyone now. It happens once a while. Some of my siblings and friends just disappear. The foxes, the tigers, the wolves and lions took them as dinner. They should not exist in this world any longer. Ban the big, wild animals!

Reporter: However, the Alexander T. Wolf claims that he is innocent while the victim’s families are experiencing great grief. Let’s hear from the suspect’s family, Granny wolf.

Granny Wolf: My dear baby Alexander did nothing intentionally to harm the pig’s family. He had serious fever and all he wanted from them was just a cup of sugar, so he could bake a birthday cake for me. However, when things happened, all the public had described him as a murderer, and the pigs are totally innocent victims. This is a stereotyping to our wolf’s family. In fact, our family has suffered reverse discrimination for all these years. Human have biased protection over the livestock and pets and this jeopardized our living rights.

We are wild animal, but unlike the livestock or pet that were feed or pampered by human, we live upon our own ability. We were trained to run faster, act faster, stronger, and not waste any food that is available. That is the key for us to be the survivor since the ice age.

As a carnivore, we maintain the balance of the food chain for our environment. We only eat meat when we are hungry or when the food is going to perish. At least we only take what we need from the earth. If eating meat is sinful, why do human beings enjoy steaks, fried-chickens, Foie gras, caviar, beef jerky so much? Besides eating,they hunt foxes to obtain the fur; they hurt deers to decorate the wall.They consume more than what is needed to be survive. I think human-beings know who the real predator in this world is, and who the real threat to all the animals is. The reason that we are “big, wild, bad “wolf is we would never be domesticated as their property or pets. If my dear Alexander didn’t eat the dead pigs, they would ultimately become the ham,the pork chop or meatball on human’s dining table. Who would say human is murderer then?

Reporter (quickly cut in): We pay great sympathy to the victim’s family. Please disregard suspect’s claim. We believe that human as the greatest creature of this world, will ensure the living right and justness of our lovely,little animal friends. Thank you for watching CCTV.

1 comment:

Maksim Rakhman said...

Hey Denise, thanks for a great post! I liked how you used an idea of stereotypes through “Big, wild, bad” phrase. Unfortunately, once in a while we all resort to these mental shortcuts that more often than not prove unreliable and anecdotal. I also liked how you brought the issue of the murder in the light of human behavior. We are the most vicious predators who kill not just to satisfy our hunger, but also for fun and out of boredom. Truly we see the peck in someone else’s eye and don’t notice the beam in our own.