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For those of you that choose to make fun of me…

This is why being a vegetarian/vegan is so good

Also check out This video for an even more graphic understanding of what we vegetarians go through. Whichever kind of animal product you consume, it generally comes from a tortured animal. I now choose to take it upon myself to insist that any dairy product I eat comes from a free range place. We are all living beings on this earth put here by God or evolution or whatever you choose to think – it isn’t just a human’s planet. If we choose to believe that this earth was given to us as humans to be the center of, then with that privilege comes the responsibility to care of it, including the other beings we deem necessary for survival.

I’m not an idiot, I get that meat is good tasting that that it’s all part of the natural food chain. But that video has nothing to do with what is natural. Native Americans used to kill a bull and find some use for every part of it. Then after they would say a prayer thanking them for their feed. Sounds like they had it right. But for us, we are an over-consuming world that want everything good and easy. And it’s not like we are the ones doing the dirty work anyways, right?

I watch these videos and see people harming the suffering animals without conscience and I wonder how it is possible. Maybe they just don’t believe that the animals are suffering, maybe they really do care and just learn to block it out, whatever. Ultimately they are all just mindless money-sucking people like most of the rest of the world. Willing to do almost anything legal for money. But I hardly can see that form of torture as being “legal” in the eyes of God or the goddesses or mother earth. And it’s not like that money those people are making isn’t going to feeding their families. And the big head honchos will keep paying them and keep thriving because people keep consuming and it is too expensive for most of the smaller humane farmers to make a living. So there is the dilemma. Everyone needs to make a living, and people keep consuming. It’s all of our faults.

What’s going on reminds me of the same vicious system that’s causing the Darfur genocide right now. The government want to murder anyone that isn’t part of their ethnicity, so they’ll fund the militias to get it done. And China wants the oil reserves, so they’ll back the government. Everyone wins except those who are suffering. Ouch.

I’m not saying you all need to be vegan. It is clear that the benefits from a vegetarian lifestyle are numerous, but I understand how unrealistic that is. But maybe take the time to educate yourself on what it is you are eating and where it comes from. Take some time to understand what we are doing to our planet and how you can make a difference. I’ve found in this just one of many causes for me, and I sit down guilt-free with my vegetarian meal.

Check out the book “The Omnivores Dilemma.” I haven’t read it yet but from what i gather it’s another amazing, life-changing read…

Always love,
Sarah

~ by violetsprout on May 21, 2008.