I used to be a meat eater. Man do I love steak and chicken and turkey, you name it! Then, when I learned how they live, what they're fed and how they are killed I could honestly no longer put a carcass on my plate. I thought to myself, I might as well eat road kill or why not eat my cats or even human flesh? What's the difference?
Just because society says? The truth is that, because TV is primarily owned by people, who own stores that sell produce, you will never see much 'truth' about your food on television. Logically, this makes sense. If you owned a company where you sell meat, and you owned television, you wouldn't publicize against meat. Where, then, can the average consumer get the truth?
For the most part, people view PETA as a group of extremist animal activists, who are not afraid to expose the gritty of animal slaughter and fur making, who throw blood on people wearing fur coats and walk around holding gory pictures of slaughtered animals advicating their beliefs at the top of their lungs. However, if no one had made such efforts, if everyone just sat behind a desk collecting cash on behalf of animals, while calling themselves animal activists, many animals would still suffer at even greater measures than they do now. PETA makes change happen. Animals need a radical voice like PETA; they need someone to speak up and show the blood, show the gore, because these days, nothing makes people stop and think unless they are shocked by what they see.
The videos are gross, I agree, but think about it this way - not knowing, do you really want to put something inside your mouth or your child's mouth, that is hazardous to your or your child's health?
Not knowing WHAT IS IN YOUR FOOD isn't safe decision making. Please learn, grow and change. Sit trough the videos, watch the tapes, even if you stomach it just once. Know what's in your food, make a change and teach your children why. Kids love honesty and they care. If your kids knew the truth, they wouldn't eat half the things you put on their plate.
Animals can't speak. PETA is their voice. However gruesome, however harsh their actions may seem to be, they are necessary. I mean, would you notice othervise? Please show your support. When truth comes to light, people are offered an alternative by companies who care and compete to offer their consumers only the best.
Learn about things like gestation crates; learn about auctions, where one entire cow costs a dollar, yet you pay close to fourteen dollars for a small piece of steak; learn about the days it takes animals to travel to the slaughter house with no water or food, sometimes freezing/sometimes choking in heat for days; learn what the animals are fed, as you will ultimately eat the same hormones, chemicals; learn about vegetarian animals who are forced to eat meat! - you will be the one putting THAT inside your own body. Did you know that almost all baked goods have 'natural flavoring?' Get to know words like 'natural flavoring' which basically means there's a bug in your food, baby. Did you know that inside your fave market, the ham in the frozen section of prepared meals is returned back to the farms, then fed to pigs who end up in those sandwiches you may be microwaving for lunch today? It's an endless circle. Who will tell you this? Not the companies who sell the meat. Not the TV that is owned by these companies... Please educate yourself about what you put inside your body.
The immense suffering of livestock in the world today is beyond words or videos. They have no life; it is an awful existence, followed by cruel slaughter. Those who can't walk are dragged onto the belt. In the end, YOU eat it all up, while the powers that be smile all the way to the bank! In the long run you pay the price. Imagine you are a farm animal, put yourself in their place and then think, can this truly be? Could I live trough such existence? Can I truly support this with my hard earned cash and still be able to sleep at night? Is this what I want to teach my children? Do yourself and your children a favor. Visit www.goveg.com learn, grow and change for the better. Support those who fight in your name, and in the name of all creatures of our planet Earth. There is no safe way, or healthy way to eat meat anymore. I am sad to say this, yet it is the plain truth. It is also not easy to become a vegetarian. You may get very sick if you do this 'cold turkey'. I made a change in my life by quitting the meat of one animal each year. I'm healthy and I've experienced great benefits from the change. I'm happy to say that this year I have become a pescaterian, that means I'm down to sea food. I never felt better and when I'm done with fish, I'll feel amazing! Mind, body and spirt in complete harmony. Consider making this change. Help those who fight for what you believe in. Deep inside, you know they're right.
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them all! Even the scary spiders ;)
