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
PETA makes vegetarians look bad. Like I said earlier, I don’t think its about eating meat, but how we go about obtaining it.
You make it seem like there is no difference between trapping cows, pigs, and chickens in tiny cages with not enough food or water and torturing them as they die OR cows, pigs and chickens grazing in a field and then being quickly and painlessly slaughtered at an old age when they no longer produce milk or eggs. The problem with eating meat isn’t the death but the quality of life beforehand, and the method of the death that is not only awful and torturous for the animal but is also unhealthy mentally for the person responsible.
I feel like there’s a difference… meh?
Better than Mangos even. I’d rather have breast milk than a million melons.
I definitely agree with the idea that there’s a difference between allowing a chicken/cow to live until it’s super old and really swiftly and painlessly killing them. However, nobody does that. The meat of an old chicken and an old cow is not considered good meat. It’s tough and wouldn’t sell for very much. Also, who is to say that just because the cow cant produce milk or because the chicken can’t produce eggs that THEN is the right time to end their happy, free range lives? It just doesn’t make sense to me. It can’t happen both ways. The only really benefits I see to the whole free range happy chicken/cow/pig idea is that it’s healthier for us to consume.