The controversy of Valladolid

The pets were tired of living conditions To them made by these walking rather than thinking beings The men And did not stop protesting against the above mentioned conditions Here is a non exhaustive presentation of their mood and comments And the ensuing controversy With the wild animals In the city of Valladolid But let us begin with the beginning if possible And at first Do not see there some precedence or preference By the horse The most beautiful conquest of walking beings according to their own statements That we can discover neighing of satisfaction In front of the disappearance of the horse butcher's in which it finished Squared bloody and suspended by legs Then cut into steak, rib steak, and other one delicious pieces To continue by the ox Ruminating its despair Not to bring himself at a hunger strike To have only the skin on bones and no more serve Of minced beef in the first Mc Do of the street corner Then the pig Having lost its pride to hear proclaim everywhere That everything is good in it And to see itself transformed into sausage, ham, black pudding Without speaking about its feet prepared to the vinaigrette and its paunch stuffed Then the sheep Bleating its rage yes its rage we do not exaggerate Not only to be devoured by wolves But also by men from its ribs up to its leg of mutton Then the goose Having lost the faith in a God Who does not prevent the walking beings to force-feed it To revel in its foie gras Then the duck quacking It had enough to finish candied in the plate of above-said Then the pigeon crooning Its will not to be pigenholded as a sucker

Then the turkey gurgling Its protests to no longer be of this famous farce and to no longer be a laughing stock Then the cow bellowing Its refusal to give its famous kick to return the ball And we do not continue to break sugar on its back's turned Under the pretext it has the habit to making an insidious attack with its kicks in France Then the dog barking And swore to stop barking At the passage of the caravan Provided the followers of Confucius do not are feasting anymore of it Then the frog croaking That it was not sure any more to be also proud as Its thighs are appreciated at the point to be considered as Delicious dish by French walking beings that their brood be cursed Then the snail gurgling By thinking no more than of escaping this beautiful country the France Where after a fast of several days To make it disgorge it is washed with plenty water Scalded and prepared according to one thousand recipes That it did not care whether they are tasty Then the veal mooing That it would like that men stick to their proverb " Of a veal we hope for an ox and of a hen for an egg " It could so disappear from plates Where it met itself cut in cutlet Then the capon singing its cock-a-doodle-do That it would still agree to be an eunuch to become a vizier But not to replace the turkey as the main dish in the Christmas Then, but let us finish this enumeration Because I hear the recriminations of our academicians of our academy In front of this continuous continuation of "then" endless By the chicken That we see cackling Against the comments of this king for whom Paris was well worth a mass And who once became king thanks to his not very Catholic conversion proclaimed Alas alas alas three times alas for our Gallican goose "I do not want there to be so poor peasant in my kingdom that He did not every sunday his chicken in the pot " These complaints and protests reached the ears of wild animals Who summoned pets in the good city of Valladolid Famous for the controversy that opposed among others, Las Casas to Sepulveda Which leads to the generalization of the slave trade in America, Since there could be no question of turning the Indians into slaves,

As proved they were creatures of God in contrast to their similar black The wilds animals told them about these words : What have you gained to accept your taming Otherwise go from raw meat for the carnivores your brothers In cooked meat for men Comment which provoked the indignation of pets and this retort: If we gained nothing We lost nothing Isn't it sirs tigers lions wolves and hyenas You've lost something irreplaceable Freedom Noticed the aforementioned Beautiful freedom Than to be constantly on the alert Made pets To what the gnu added I confirm Freedom is hard to bear When we are only food in the eyes of the strongest As for your freedom It seems that it does not stop decreasing to the point that if zoos did not exist Many of you would have disappeared from this planet Added pets I confirm Our housing does not stop to shrink It is not more than a pocket handkerchief Approved our gnu Wild animals exclaimed: We did not say our last word Incurring on behalf of pets this fine remark: You can't teach an old dog nor an old monkey new tricks The gnu says then: I confirm The men do not usually run with the hare and hunt with the hounds Nor put water in their wine Nor eat humble pie Wild animals addressing the gnu: Do not be in a bad mood, do not come to put the ill-feeling between us You go to be the fall guys ill-feeling or not Forecast pets

Feel reassured we will not finish in juice of pudding Said wild animals There's none so deaf as he who will not hear Proclaimed pets We shall know how to take the bull by the horns Believe it added wild animals Ol Launched pets Out of its rumination the bull asked: Who calls me The gnu says to it : We need your testimony on men The bull answered: Ages ago that we face These puny human beings The gnu: We can know your feeling The bull: We will eventually have them even if we have to die until the last of us The gnu: With time we overcome everything But in this case that's a different kettle of fish it seems The bull: For one that we send into the afterlife it is true Too many of us end up more dead than alive Pets: That's what we said it's time to change your rifle of shoulder And to change your tune or of heart why not The gnu: Especially since it is they who shoulder the gun and shoot And give the A Wild animals: Nuts ! Medlars ! As the French swear The bull: No way ! Orange of China ! As the Spanish swear Pets: We do not insist any more we leave the bullring Wild animals: It's good! continue to play the dumb donkey to achieve some hay

Pets: And you to walk on all fours without seeing farther than the end of your muzzle The gnu: Sirs it is necessary reason to keep Wild animals: What do you meddle, gnu, we did not ask you what time is it The gnu: It's one minute to midnight The lion: Just wait and see you will lose nothing by waiting cowardly animal The gnu: So much the better I have all my time The lion: We make the fine wit but remember where strenght reign reason fades The gnu: Allow me to slip away without making a song and dance I have to carry some water to the sea The lion: You lose nothing by waiting I will make you spend a hard time The gnu: Gnu warned gnu to gallop Pets: Hang up your gloves back on topic and our sheep Sheep where Cried the wolf The pets: Not here! Just the once won't hurt The wolf: I do not understand It is true there is no reasoning with a starving man Sir wolf Noticed the cat And deciding to intervene with all the wisdom of its people Accustomed to the abysses of the paradox It turned to the audience and held these wise comments: As for you, friends, made as we, tame men ( Murmurs of approval in the crowd, we can read in the report of the session) Nothing easier Live at their expense By not trying to take the moon with teeth (New murmurs of approval) You can and keep your freedom and enjoy a comfortable life In good speaker, our wise feline paused

To do Rebuff them more often than usual (Diverse exclamations of approval noted by the clerk in his report) Support only with economy their caresses Do not obey them by posting a feigned large willingness Give them the impression that they do not know how to be understood By looking at them with the most enigmatic possible innocence So that they know that you are Very patient with them That they can make better the next time You will see, prediction of feline, they will be grateful (Cheering of several minutes, it is noted in the official record of the meeting Which is the basis for our own narrative) * Some of the animals had taken notes Some asked for clarification that the cat was willing to give Incurring nods of approval Some were skeptical doesn't stop thinking For example bonobos and orangutans and among them Serge Pongtong Whose we all know the speeches, available at the link below http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/2957728 Is it out any change for the better As in the case of the first conference of Valladolid Whose consequence was the spread of slave trade Judging for example you can read reports on the slaughter of domestic animals Including ritual slaughter http://www.wspa-international.org/Images/Module_16_Slaughter%20of%20farm %20animals_tcm25-17577.pdf And especially see the movie "Green" on the agony of an orangutan in Indonesia: http://www.greenthefilm.com/?lang=en