Pork...the other deterrent

[identity profile] mehetabel.livejournal.com 2003-11-20 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
70,000 australian sheep will not be going to the middle east after animal rights activists sprinkled ham in their feed

Here's a thought, instead of giving pilots guns, why not some sort of aerosol/pepper-spray/water-pistol type delivery method for hosing down would-be martyrs with bacon grease? Threat-specific, non-lethal, and it recycles!

Re: Pork...the other deterrent

[identity profile] jmhm.livejournal.com 2003-11-20 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, the british did something very much like that in India. It didn't work out well.

Re: Pork...the other deterrent

[identity profile] mehetabel.livejournal.com 2003-11-24 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
True, it didn't work well, but we can learn from their failures, I trust.
In the case of the Sepoy rebellion, the troops conscripted by the British were made to bite off cartridges greased with beef/pork tallow. The beef pissed off the Hindu Sepoys, and the pork pissed off the Muslim Sepoys. The revolt was joined by native Indians who had been dispossessed or dislocated by the empire-building.

After the revolt was put down by a large infusion of white soldiers not so discriminating about their bullets, the British gave back land to some of the Indian rulers and showed greater sensitivity to Hindu & Muslim sensitivities.