Why I’m a Vegetarian
I don’t have a problem with people eating animals for food per se (although with so many starving humans, it is a tremendous waste of resources). Instead, I have a serious problem with the way the animals are treated. If you think it’s all happy cows wandering in grassy fields, you are sadly mistaken. (WARNING: Ignorance is bliss. Don’t read this if you like your meat or if you’ve got a weak stomach. Personally, I’m having a hard time keeping my breakfast down as it is). This article is about pig factory farms, but the same thing is true for beef and poultry.
Tags: factory farm, health, vegetarian
January 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
You know I couldn’t bear to look at whatever you linked, but even “Fast Food Nation” does a good job of describing how horrific and stomach-turning the beef industry is. As you know, I’ve been a vegetarian for over 17 years, so I’ve gotten a lot of people accusing me of overreacting and just making stuff up, but clearly I’m not. And none of this even gets into the huge environmental damage and complete inefficiency of the meat industry, or the health repercussions of eating meat.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
My take on all this:
http://suicidefood.blogspot.com