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Death threats follow local vegan’s Facebook post about Vegas shootings
 [TIMESLEADER] WILKES-BARRE ‐ The Mother Nature Vegan Cuisine food truck is no more and its owner finds herself in the middle of a firestorm for insensitive comments about the people killed in the Las Vegas massacre.Past insensitive, well into vicious, in fact... Delinda Jensen, 60, has received death threats after posting this Facebook comment: "Yes I am jaded. Fifty nine meat eaters dead. How many animals will live because of this?" She then made a comment under the post that said: "I don’t give a (expletive) about carnists anymore." My reponse would be: Save the vegetables! Eat more meat! Jensen, a former adjunct history professor at Marywood University, Comes as a surprise, don't it? said Thursday she is living in fear since her post set off an intense backlash on social media earlier this week. She is out of business and her bright green food truck is in a secret storage area. Oh, noze! Not the bright green food truck! "I (expletive) up," Jensen said while sitting at her kitchen table with son and business partner, Kyle, 28. "Was it poorly written? Absolutely. Do I regret it? Yes. I am so sorry I wrote that." Not because of the viciousness, because of the loss of business... Many Facebook users shared Jensen’s post, which generated hundreds of hate-filled comments and threats and little defense of her stance.  Are they hate-filled comments? Or are they reactions to her hatred? Lots of people stick with trading like for like. Death threats? Lessee here... How many adjunct professors have said terrible things in the past ten years about people they feel superior to without knowing them, how many have complained of death threats, and how many have actually been rubbed out?Jensen emphatically insisted she was not happy about the death of 59 people. Nor would any of the 59 people, had they not been murdered, have taken any pleasure in her abrupt demise. "Meat eaters or not, no one deserves to die like that," Jensen said. "I wasn’t celebrating the death of those people. That’s not how vegans think ‐ we are non-violent." Yet she feels free to refer to us as "carnists," the sort of neologism derived from "racist." In trying to explain her motivation for writing the post, Jensen wanted to make the point that too many animals are tortured and killed every year ‐ she estimated 20 billion-plus ‐ and consumed by humans. It wouldn't be cost effective to torture animals before killing them. There were 152.7 million hogs marketed in 2013, 23.1 billion pounds, at about 64 cents a pound. It's big business, not one where there's a lot of time or even opportunity for flogging or gouging eyes or that sort of thing. Little male piggies get the snip usually at three days. I think most farmers still snip the shoats' teeth to keep them from damaging each other and Mom's udders. Nor is there a desire to mistreat them. Unhappy piggies aren't fat piggies. If I recall correctly, there's slightly more pork than beef (and veal) produced per year, with chicken close behind, and turkey following. Jensen, who became a vegan two years ago, said people can eat good food without the inhumanity of abusing and killing innocent animals. She said one vegan translates to saving 155 animals per year. ...out of 152,700,000 produced per year. Nor will that keep them alive. We export an awful lot of pig meat. Anything that Kroger's doesn't want to buy will likely end up at the Choi Duc Oi Meatery in Hanoi or someplace like that.
But she's neither dead nor damaged, is she? She and Kyle said they had to install a security camera system for protection. Kyle said many vehicles have driven by their Mill Street home in Wilkes-Barre ‐ with people shouting obscenities and threats. The Jensens said they had to call police several times because they feared for their safety.  "Help! Help! We're under siege by carnophiles!‘Lynch mob forming’ Jensen deactivated her Facebook account, but not before her post was shared countless times, causing a nationwide controversy. Jensen said she was told that someone even contacted media outlets in Las Vegas to inform them of her post. Now, why would they do that? "It’s almost like a lynch mob is forming," said Jensen. "It’s seems that it’s no longer about the Facebook post ‐ now it’s about eating meat." Nope. Still about the Facebook post. Nobody gives a crap what she eats. Jensen is angry at herself for what she called "a moment of stupidity." Not for a lifetime's, mind you... She felt her vegan business was doing good for people, giving them a healthy alternative. Jensen would bring her truck to Public Square on Mondays and it was very popular. "We even gave food to the homeless for free," she said. Dat's very nice of you. Did you care if they were murdered if they happened to eat a baloney sandwich? But now, "We’re done. We canceled all of our booked events. We had a really good product, too." "More kale?" "Yes, thankew. And some of dat nice kohl rabi!" "You got anything with protein in it?" "Have a peanut!" "But I...!" "Shuddup and eat yer broccoli! It's good for you!"  If she could, she would contact the families of all the Las Vegas victims to personally apologize. Instead, as she deals with the loss of her business and a steady stream of harsh criticism, she’s afraid to leave her home. "There’s just so much visceral hate out there," she said.And she's some of it. In addition to clearing their Facebook accounts, Jensen and her son have deactivated all of their electronic devices. Except for their security camera. Jensen said she asked Kyle’s friends to go out and buy some paint so she could pass the time painting the walls and ceilings in her home. "It will be like therapy," she said. "I have nothing else to do right now. I have no avenue to apologize. I can’t even think of going back on Facebook." Actually, therapy's like therapy. Painting's a lot more like painting. ’We are not bad people’ That's arguable. Jensen said she has no idea where she goes from here ‐ she doesn’t know how she will earn a living. Maybe get a job at the grocery store, ringing up meat purchases? I understand CBS has an opening, but y'gotta be a lawyer. "I’ll just take it one day at a time," she said. "I understand the tragedies of history ‐ there’s never anything to celebrate. I never once felt ’Yay, yippee, 59 people are dead.’" But neither did she give a crap, since they were "carnists." Jensen knows what it’s like to lose a loved one ‐ her husband did away with himself. If I lived with a dipshit I probably would, too... In the past few days, she and her son have gotten a real sample of the inhumanity and hate in the world. After she burped out a bit of her own... She said people driving by her home have shouted all sorts of horrible things ‐ profanity, threats ‐ and they have attacked her for being a vegan. How do you attack somebody for being vegist?  "We are not bad people," she said. Sure you aren't. "We are aware that there are people on social media who have been trying to organize groups to come after us." Put a name on them. Back up the claim. So at night, Jensen and her son lock all the doors and turn out the lights. They leave porch lights on so security cameras can record anyone trying to get near them. "I did write an apology on Facebook right after the post went up," Jensen said. "It didn’t matter. People were already running with it." Probably because it was mean and vicious? Kyle, who has a degree in culinary arts, is sure he will find another job. "I’m not mad at my mom," he said. "We are a family. We’ve been through a lot. But people have destroyed our business." It's all about them, not about 59 anonymous deaders who liked hamburgers and pot roast and pork chops...
Posted by: Fred 2017-10-09 |
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