For the record, that sight (see post below) was all I really needed to reaffirm a vegetarian lifestyle.
Here's the game I play when craving meat (works 98.872% of the time... approximately):
Look at that beautiful, perfectly cooked and seasoned chicken breast. Now, think of it alive, jammed into a cage with 12 other miserable birds. They are sick, dirty and standing in their own... well, you get the picture. Now, how about splattered on the roadside after the daring escape from prison (aka the chicken truck)? Still want those nuggets?
Want to hear the cow game?
Mmmm, hamburger smells good. Really damn good. God, I want a steak. But wait... close your eyes... uh-huh, good. Now remember watching the cows being loaded onto our ship in the Amazon? The beatings, those poor animals. Skin and bones, slipping and sliding down the bank, falling into the water, with the rope forcing painful contortions - ways an animal's body shouldn't bend. Still hungry? Ok. Remember the sound? The crack that could be heard all the way on the top deck of the ship, as the deckhands folded the cow's tail and snapped it in two to get her to move?
Do you really want to support that with your consumption of meat?
I didn't think so.
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i think that's a bit unfair- there are places where you can get meat where the animals have free range. you can even find meat where the cows have been fed things other than corn. and i'm not trying to sound harsh by any means because i do believe that animals should not be treated like this, however, have you seen the statistic of how many animals vegetarians save a year by not eating meat? it's not much. and how many of those vegetarians own leather shoes, or handbags...? i believe in animal rights, but there are other ways of going about trying to save them.
ReplyDeleteActually, I have no problem whatsoever eating meat, I'm just trying out the vegetarian thing right now as sort of a challenge, as moral support for my beau who went vegetarian as his new year's resolution (solidarity), and as an evironmental statement - the rate of cow consumption in this country especially is horrible for the environment. For example, for every pound of beef I do not eat, I save 2,500 to 5,000 gallons of water a year.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I need gross mental images to help me not eat meat - since I love it so much, I need something to turn my cravings off.
And, I see nothing wrong with eating animals that have been treated well. I don't like the idea of animal abuse - it makes my stomach turn - but I would have no problem raising and eating my own chickens. That's no big deal.
People shouldn't stop eating meat because of animal cruelty, although I wish we would demand more humane treatment of the animals we do eat. But, I think the environmental reasons are compelling enough to suggest that people cut their meat intake. Note, I don't say everyone should give it up. It tastes good. But we should reduce how much we consume. That is, if we care about sustaining life on Earth for the future...
I totally understand where you're coming from now. i'm glad you're clarified this : )
ReplyDeleteWow...i am really disturbed with that graphic discription. I wish I had the "balls" to become a vegeterian. I can go without beef and pig but I could never give up chicken!! I love chicken!! lol...But, I think it's great to become a vegeterian! You have all of my support!!
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