Summary
Allexis Ferrell, a 27-year-old Ohio woman, was sentenced to one year in prison for killing and attempting to eat a cat.
The case gained global attention after it was falsely linked to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, by Donald Trump and JD Vance, despite Ferrell being a U.S. citizen from Canton, 170 miles away.
The baseless claims were widely debunked by authorities.
Ferrell, a mother of three, was found competent to stand trial and requested treatment for substance abuse.
Judge Frank Forchione called the crime “repulsive” and sentenced her to the maximum term.
I so agree. Unchallenged assumptions built into the carnist worldview lead people into some very weird positions.
I remember some crazy carnist growling at some other veg*n at the table at a restaurant: “I don’t know WHAT you people are going to do in the Armageddon”.
This was their response to a vegn asking some rather basic questions about the menu. So many questions: for one thing, they seem to think that an Armageddon is coming. For another, they seem to think that they’d be doing what, “living off the land”? Don’t make me fucking laugh. And another, they seem to think that being vegn is some kind of suicide pact? Lastly, this is their excuse for being a carnist? That there is supposedly an Armageddon that will require eating meat, so they must consume it now?
The carnist response to even the existence of veg*ns really seems to flummox some of them to the point of complete incoherence on their part. Some of the conversations I’ve been subjected to from some of them are just eye-boggling weird. I don’t bother trying to reason with carnists; trying to reason them out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into is not my thing, but they want to “debate” me the minute they learn I’m vegetarian, usually starting with the groaner “but where do you get your protein?”, LOL.