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Poor Animals! How jealously their guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
T Casey Brennan
That's a great quote! The singer Moby once said something similar that resonates with me:
"Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?"
I wanted to become a vegetarian for several years because every time I would eat meat I would think about what it was that I was eating and be a bit sad.
One day at work, I talked to a couple of other therapists who are vegetarians that I would want their help one day when I make the decision. I wasn't thinking about actually doing it then, but one day. Well, the next day they lent me their copy of Skinny *****. That night I read it and through the sobs I stopped eating animals. That was about 1 1/2 yrs ago and I am SO HAPPY about my decision. I feel so much more content with that area of my life.
The first few months I would crave meat, but I made sure I had enough protein intake and the cravings would go away. I had a couple of times when I ate something like chicken, but it never tasted good like it used to.
One day at work, I talked to a couple of other therapists who are vegetarians that I would want their help one day when I make the decision. I wasn't thinking about actually doing it then, but one day. Well, the next day they lent me their copy of Skinny *****. That night I read it and through the sobs I stopped eating animals. That was about 1 1/2 yrs ago and I am SO HAPPY about my decision. I feel so much more content with that area of my life.
That book really got to me, too! It was very convincing...
A great movie to watch about how "farm animals" are treated is the peacable kingdom. And from others I have seen, this one is pretty mild....
I look at my cats and think, would I think it is ok to kill them and eat them? I don't. So why would I think it is ok to kill any other animal just to eat it when I could be eating something else. They all feel pain and want to live. If people do it because they have to for survival, that is one thing, but I certainly have plenty of other choices.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau
A great movie to watch about how "farm animals" are treated is the peacable kingdom. And from others I have seen, this one is pretty mild....
I look at my cats and think, would I think it is ok to kill them and eat them? I don't. So why would I think it is ok to kill any other animal just to eat it when I could be eating something else. They all feel pain and want to live. If people do it because they have to for survival, that is one thing, but I certainly have plenty of other choices.
Yep! As a favorite bumper sticker of mine says, "If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?" Anyone who stops to reflect on that is in for a huge shock.
It's just amazing to me how we, as a meat-eating society, have such a disconnect between that neatly packaged little piece of meat in the supermarket and the cow that was happily grazing in the pasture a few weeks before.
I haven't seen "Peaceable Kingdom," but if it's anything like "The Witness," I'm sure it's both graphic, eye-opening, and heart-wrenching. A friend of my wife's family started Tribe of Heart and makes those videos. I don't see how anyone who views them could ever look at an animal ever again as food, or clothing, or entertainment, or anything else but another living being with feelings that just wants to live ... and will fight just as hard to keep living as you and I do.
I decided to become a vegetarian because of my health and my acne. I am 30 years old yet I break out once in a while like I'm 16! I don't like using all different kinds of medicines on my skin because I have severe allergy reactions.
That book really got to me, too! It was very convincing...
Yeah, it had made one of the therapists into a vegetarian as soon as she read it. The book has been passed around to others, but I don't think anyone else took it heart as we did.
I think the more spiritual we become (I'm not talking "church going" here), the more natural it becomes for us to change to a plant-based diet. Somehow we're "led" to it.
I can't consider myself a vegan, though -- only because I do wear leather shoes and occasionally put a little honey in my (cooked) whole-grain breakfast cereal. But yes, I do abstain from eating animal foods. To me, they're all precious critters.
No health problems at all -- never take prescription or other drugs other than a v-e-r-y rare aspirin. Haven't had a cold since...let me think. Must have been 9 or 10 years ago, at least.
By the way, I loved "Skinny B*t*h." I skipped the sections about animal torture (it's like preaching to the choir, in my case). What I did read, was informative and hilarious.
When I was in my early twenties, I noticed that eating meat would cause me to feel off--rather like I was carrying a stone around in my gut. It didn't matter if it was beef or chicken. The feeling would persist for a full day after the meal. Since I didn't eat that much meat anyway, I decided to stop eating it completely and see how I felt. I bought Diet for a Small Planet and Recipes for a Small Planet, learned to combine foods for complete protein and never looked back. In the midst of learning about my diet, I also learned about the meat industry. That was the end of any meat cravings as well.
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