Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I'm not usually one to throw my beliefs down your throat, but...

I recently saw this documentary called Meet your Meat on YouTube, which got the vegetarian inside of me to yell and scream. I've been vegetarian for a large part of my life, and more solidly for about the past 4 years.

I mostly argue that my reason for being vegetarian is mostly the ecological impact of growing and distributing meat- grow grains to feed the cows/hens/sheep/pigs to feed the human and all the CO2 the animals emit themselves. However, after watching this I found it difficult not to feel a little bit more vindicated for not being in the torturous slaughtering process that is the life of a meat eater.

I'm not sure if the conditions are the same in Australia and I'm guessing the makers were selective about what they put into this documentary, but regardless, no one should be subject to this. Animals need not be bred and suffer so painfully just to die, right at the moment we decide them to.





Also, I'm thinking of getting a pet chicken but am unsure about how that would go in inner-city Melbourne... any thoughts?

3 comments:

  1. What about all the cruel animal testing that is done on the products you use? Your make-up? Your cigarettes? What about animal testing for medical purpose? And on that note, what about cruelty to humans? What about slave labour, and child labour and sweatshops? What about all your clothes Emma?? What about the Apple computer you love so much? Didn't you see that Apple didn't comply with labour regulations in China? HOW CAN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT??
    love :D

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  2. totes get a chicken em.

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  3. Carol, I just blame Bush, Capitalism and the government i can't make a good enough argument against all the woes of the west.
    It really is all their fault. All of them. At once. A threesome of fault.


    Gab, I just got a cat, which is even better :)

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