Tambuling Batangas Publication October 03-09, 2018 Issue | Page 5

OPINYON
October 3-9 , 2018
isn’t what you wear or who you know
or pushing people down to get you
where you wanna go”

This song will give you
a bad-ass vibe. It’s a song that says
“don’t mess with me, gal!”
My Top 10 Favorite Underrated Songs of Taylor Swift
by Mae Hyacinth Ludivico are underrated.
When it comes to music, Taylor Swift
is the first artist that comes into my
mind. She is an American multi-
Grammy award-winning singer and
songwriter. No wonder, her famous
songs like “Love Story”, “Shake it
off”, “Look What You Made Me Do”,
etc., really hit the charts. But, it’s so
sad to think that not all of her songs
don’t get more exposure (except from
the fandom, of course). I do really
think that these ‘songs’ deserve to be
heard more often. Here’s a list of my
top
10 favorite of Taylor Swift songs that 10. Hey Stephen
Favorite Line: “The way you walk,
way you talk, way you say my name
–It’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you
ever change.”

This song is really catchy
for me. The lines are so good. It’s
nice to listen to this song when you’re
on your way home and you just had a
good encounter with your crush.
9. Mary’s Song
Favorite Line: “I’ll be eighty-seven;
you’ll be eighty-nine

I’ll still look at you like the
stars that shine in the sky, oh my my
my...”

This song is just so sweet.
The lyrics will give you a complete
story of like a childhood sweethearts
and ended up being together.
8. State of Grace
Favorite Line: “Love is a ruthless
game unless you play it good and
right.”

This song comes from her
album “Red”. The song is about a
grown up Taylor Swift.
7. Better than Revenge
Favorite Line: “But sophistication
6. The Lucky One
Favorite Line: “You had it figured out
since you were in school. Everybody
loves pretty, everybody loves cool.”

This song will definitely
give you a cool vibe. It’s a song about
fame and how it affects an individual.
It’s like, today, you are loved by the
people around you and the next day,
everyone hates you.
5. Last Kiss
Favorite Line: “I love how you walk
with your hands in your pockets.
How you kissed me when I was in the
middle of saying something. There’s
not a day I don’t miss those rude
interruptions.”

If you misses someone that
got away, you really need to listen to
this song. It’s a song about moving on
and wishing everything good for that
‘someone’.
4. Jump Then Fall
Favorite Line: “I realize your laugh
is the best sound I have ever heard.”

The lyrics of this song is
so cute. It’s like you go back to your
Vegans versus butchers
PARIS, France — When
the stone slabs crashed into
her butcher’s shop window
last week, Elisabeth Cure
became the latest victim of
“radical vegans” who are
trying to force a change in
eating habits in traditionally
meat-loving France.

The attack in a quiet
town of Saint-Arnoult-en-
Yvelines, 50 kilometers (30
miles) southwest of Paris,
took place at 3:00 am,
startling Cure as she slept
above the store.

As in other similar
incidents around France over
the last year, her tormentors
left a tell-tale tag scrawled
on the shopfront: “End the
Repression”.

“That’s how I knew
it was radical vegans,” she
told AFP.
Incidents
of
vandalism and intimidation
have reached such a level
that the country’s butchers’
confederation, representing
18,000 businesses, sounded
the alarm publicly in June
and asked the government
for protection.

“Since the start of the
year, we’ve seen 17 butcher
shop windows destroyed and
dozens of acts of vandalism,”
Jean-Francois Guihard, head
of the CFBCT confederation,
told AFP.

“The state needs
to take necessary steps,”
he said, characterizing the
campaign
against
meat
producers as a “form of
terrorism”.
Overnight
on
Thursday-Friday, an abattoir
in the east of France was
partly burned down, again
raising suspicions that anti-
meat campaigners could be
responsible.

The heads of the
cattle and pork associations,
Interbev and Inaporc, issued
a joint statement on Friday
urging President Emmanuel
Macron to intervene and
even warning of a “civil
war” over the issue.
Animal genocide?

Health
scares,
higher prices and growing
awareness about animal
rights have led to a gradual
fall in meat consumption
in France since the end of
the 1990s, but most natives
remain proudly carnivorous.

In the country that
brought the world boeuf
bourguignon, coq au vin
and foie gras, vegetarianism
and particularly veganism
remain marginal, with most
French children still fed
meat four days a week at
school.

But a small fringe of
radical animal rights groups
is determined to change
attitudes by highlighting
abuses and cruelty in the
farming and meat industry.

Traditionally their
campaigns have involved
handing out leaflets or
organizing demonstrations,
but in recent years they
have turned to direct
action, invading abattoirs
or throwing fake blood over
processing plants.

Although no groups
have been blamed for the
recent attacks on butcher
shops, activist networks such
as L214, 269 Life France or
Boucherie Abolition are at
the forefront of these more
muscular tactics.

The latter group
fights “for the abolition
of the genocide called
butchery,” its spokeswoman
Solveig Halloin told AFP.
“Animal breeding should not
be a career. The methods of
rearing animals are violent
and amount to persecution.”

Halloin does not say
whether her group is behind
the attacks on butcher
shops, but neither does she
condemn the violence.

“The extremists in
brutality are the butchers,”
she said.
Applying
the
word
“genocide”
to
the
slaughtering of animals —
the term is a specific legal
crime applied to the killing
of humans on account of
their race or identity —
reflects
the
“speciest”
beliefs of radical groups
such as Boucherie Abolition.

So-called “speciests”
reject the idea of an animal
hierarchy that places humans
at the top, arguing instead
that all animals should be
treated equally.
Veganism gains ground
Last
Saturday,
Boucherie Abolition and
269 Life France organized
demonstrations in front of
dozens of butchers’ shops
across France.

In Paris, Vincent
Aubry
and
another
campaigner carried around
a young pig — which are
prized for their tenderness
when roasted.

Aubry
did
not
condemn the smashing of
butchers’ windows either
and he said he was “prepared
to go to prison if needed.”

“Our only limit is
violence against human
beings,” he said.
The
risk
of
confrontation between those
teenage years.
3. Enchanted
Favorite Line: “This night is
sparkling, don’t you let it go. I’m
wonderstruck, blushing all the way
home. I’ll spend forever wondering
if you knew I was enchanted to meet
you.”

The lyrics of this song
will hit you big time. It’s more of a
girl-meets-boy. This will give you a
magical, fairytale feeling.
2. All too Well
Favorite Line: “And I know it’s long
gone, and that magic’s not here no
more, and I might be okay, but I’m
not fine at all.”
This song of Swift is the most
heartbreaking for me. It’s a five-
minute and a half song about
reminiscing and moving on.
1. Sparks Fly
Favorite Line: “I’m captivated by
you, baby, like a firework show.”

For me, this song is one
of the best songs of Taylor. This
song comes from her album “Speak
Now”. This song is perfect while
you’re driving home. The lyrics are
adorable and it really sounds good to
your ears.
who depend on rearing and
slaughtering animals for
their living and those who
are determined to stop what
they consider to be mass
killing appears to be rising.
The
CFBCT
confederation accuses the
vegans of “wanting to impose
on the immense majority
of people their lifestyle, or
even their ideology.”

Marianne Celka, a
researcher at the Paul-Valery
University in Montpellier
in southern France, sees
“no chance of conciliation”
between the two sides.

But she highlights
how veganism is gaining
ground in France, with
some major supermarkets
now stocking “100 percent
vegan”
products
—
sometimes opposite their
meat aisles.
A member of the radical militant group anti-species and vegan “Butcher abolition” poses in front of a butcher’s shop
with a dead piglet in his arms during a demonstration, in Paris, on 22 September 2018. (AFP photo)