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Originally Posted by jeff3  IMO, the trend toward veganism is out of guilt.
The average person, in the USA at least, is so far removed from the food chain that they have no comprehension of what it takes to feed the many mouths in this world. Some people just think the food comes from the grocery store and have no idea how the process works, so when PETA or some other group puts together a bunch of clips from the worst of the worst farms and uploads it to Youtube they all think that is what every farm in the world is like and they are made to feel guilty about eating meat, which is the aim of the films. This is pure propaganda meant to shock and guilt people into seeing the world through PETA colored glasses.
People no longer are exposed to raising their own animals or actually killing something to eat, as they were less than 100 years ago, so now, when they witness this or really stop and consider it, it seems foreign and wrong, but nothing has changed, except they pay someone else to do the processing and this separation from the process has caused people to become squeamish simply by lack of exposure to the process.
I'm sure most would consider childbirth "gross" too and would like to sanitize it somehow so their sensibilities aren't offended, maybe they could have digital children, and while we are at it, let's outlaw bowell movements, how disgusting they are. |
I don't subscribe to your view. I've read and seen enough from many animal rights organizations to believe that factory farming is disgusting. Yes I still eat meat. I tried vegitarianism for a while, twice now, because I think it's dreadful the way we farm animals. To my own disgrace, I keep going back to eating meat that was raised and slaughtered on factory farms.
I am hoping to do better someday, at least to buy a freezer and try and purchase my meat/fowl from local organic free ranging farms.
I really enjoyed the OP, and wish things were different for me, but that doesn't change the fact that as a race, we humans are not doing right by the animals. But hey, why should they be different. We don't do right by each other either. 24,000 children die each and every day due to causes related to extreme poverty.
I just don't want to stand by and hear someone say that it doesn't happen, because it does. Our corporate farms are a testament to how depraved we are.