I’d really love to be a vegetarian. Why? Because it’s the cool thing to do nowadays. I, too, want to feel what the others feel when they snootily get to say “I don’t eat that” Or “Is there a vegetarian option?” There’s something sort of fun about being difficult and, ultimately, different. If it’s not for my own health, however, I can’t really think of a good reason to stop eating meat. I really feel like the order of the world suggests that bigger, smarter and utimately more powerful species are allowed to eat the others if they so please. Tigers eat buffalo, whales eat.. um.. whales eat smaller sea animals and sharks and dolphins do, too. Big scary birds eat small rodents. That’s just the way it is. Now, I totally understand that keeping animlas in small, filthy cages and beating the shit out of them is completely unnecessary. Today Amber told me about how tons of cow shit is somehow ruining the environment– which is terrible (and I have all the intentions in the world to research that more cuz it’s really interesting). But, yeah, so PETA has these really intense videos that try really hard to convince people to become vegetarians. However, I they just don’t really touch me the way they’re supposed to. Why aren’t we trying to stop lions and tigers from killing zebras or something. I just don’t see how it’s any different or any less natural that we as humans eat meat. If everything is to be left as it is then we’d all just live off of wild fruits and berries and all the world animals would run wild– that, obviously, is not the case.
Apparently there’s a whole sect of people who think that it’s better to kill animals after we’ve allowed to run about in a field freely and eat healthy grains or something. Now how the hell does that make sense? Killing animals is killing animals. Period. Either you’re okay with the idea or not. Killing animals AND the environment = something to look into. Making sure that chickens feel like they’ve lived a worthwhile life b4 chopping their heads off? Not so much. Now, for certain people eating meat altogether is just wrong. I support those people in feeling that way and that’s completely fine. That’s a cause I would get behind if I had any self control whatsoever. That’s another episode, however.
AND another thing, PETA effing sucks if they think they can show pictures of some dead fish and state some really out-of-context facts and make some kind of profound point. I saw a PETA PSA comparing the treatment of elephants or something to the 400 year enslavement of black people in America. I was done with them at that point. In fact, I’m about to go have me a tuna sandwich in protest of their ridiculousness.
F*ck a free range chicken
