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I'm not quite vegetarian, but I cut drastically the amount of meat I eat (No chicken, turkey, pork, generic eggs ...brrr, sorry) after I got acquainted first hand how it's grown and slaughtered. When I see chicken meat, a thought about vomiting immediately crosses my mind. Industrial farming is destructive and insane, modern industrial animal farming is immoral (both towards animals and people) on top of that and it's just disgusting. If you'd see all those wounds, tumors, featherless spots, crooked legs on feces covered chickens, whose biologically white feathers turned yellow from all that Moderator cut: language, a "tasty" KFC meal may stuck in your throat.
Life feeds on life. It's just the way this world runs. However, there is something deeply troubling about industrial feeding on life.
Last edited by Green Irish Eyes; 02-06-2010 at 11:51 AM..
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how long have you been one and when was the last time you ate meat? does it disgust you or something?
It's been a few years for us. There was a big meat recall, so we didn't eat meat one day, and then just decided not to eat it again. I never liked killing animals anyway and so I felt good about not eating meat.
I think if you do eat meat, hunting is a much more humane way of obtaining it.
Meat doesn't disgust me though. If someone else wants to eat it, that is entirely up to them. I made a personal decision. It works for me, that's all.
I'm not quite vegetarian, but I cut drastically the amount of meat I eat (No chicken, turkey, pork, generic eggs ...brrr, sorry) after I got acquainted first hand how it's grown and slaughtered. When I see chicken meat, a thought about vomiting immediately crosses my mind. Industrial farming is destructive and insane, modern industrial animal farming is immoral (both towards animals and people) on top of that and it's just disgusting. If you'd see all those wounds, tumors, featherless spots, crooked legs on feces covered chickens, whose biologically white feathers turned yellow from all that [mod]language[/mod], a "tasty" KFC meal may stuck in your throat.
Life feeds on life. It's just the way this world runs. However, there is something deeply troubling about industrial feeding on life.
Don't get me started on KFC. Seriously. Do. Not. Get. Me. Started! They have a special kind of cruelty. Just... ARGH!
Every time I see one of their commercials, I have to pick up my sweet little birds and give them kisses.
I have been a vegetarian for 13 years, vegan for 6 months.
Ethical and more recently Environmental. The ethical part weighs more heavily on my mind though.
i stopped eating meat when i was 12 for ethical reasons. i didn't think it was right to eat animals.
i stopped eating dairy when i was 22 because i object to factory farms on a lot of different levels - ethical, environmental, even humanitarian. i guess technically i'd eat eggs & milk that came from humane farms or from animals i raised myself, but i don't have any pet goats or chickens and i don't feel the need to bother seeking out dairy sources that meet my standards. i'm fine being vegan. i can't see myself eating meat ever again.
i am now 31, i'll be 32 soon. i guess within a year i'm due to go raw or something, eh?
I don't miss it and I'm happy and healthy. Why mess with a good thing?
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