The Only Thing You Will Hear Me Say About Food and Ethics

[all_hallows07]

This is probably the only thing you will ever hear me really say about vegetarianism. I just want to get it out of my system, and the LJ-cut means that you don't have to read it if you don't want to. And at the end, a vegan Q&A! And below that, one day's food intake with a nutritional summary.

I know that people have lots of excuses and scenarios

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[all_hallows07]

I do equate meat-eaters to animal torturers. You may not be torturing the animal yourself, and you may be repulsed by the idea of animal torture, but by eating meat you are saying that it is okay for an animal to live in awful conditions and die a painful, gruesome death because you like the way it tastes. Not only that, most meat-eaters prefer to know nothing about how their food lived and died because it makes them uncomfortable. That, in my opinion, is cowardly and often hypocritical. I want people who eat meat that they haven't hunted, fished, or raised themselves to really confront what goes into their spicy chicken sandwich and say "Yes, I am not opposed to animal torture."

I hear a lot of people say "it's already dead, this doesn't do anything for it." No, not eating that sandwich in front of you will not bring that chicken back to life. But not eating that sandwich, not buying that bacon or pork chop, decreases demand and does not funnel money directly back into the mistreatment, death, and sale of dead animals. Vegetarianism is an active protest, not an immediate solution.

There are three million vegetarians and vegan in the United States. At two bucks a sandwich, that's six million dollars not going back through the meat system.