Treatise On Animal Friendly Dietary Systems
I think that the environment is the most important thing in our world, mostly because it is our world. If you think that we can abuse animals because they have no brain then why isn't it acceptable to abuse mentally handicapped people?... because we have an appreciation for them and treat others as we would wish to be treated. It is not necassary to kill animals for food because we can get all our nutrients from plants. Calcium from seaweed Protein from Soy. In our day and age it is greed that drives us to cruelly slaughter billions and billions of animals a year. People say, "I can't be vegetarian because I like chicken to much." that is greed. The person desires the taste of chicken so much that s/he is willing to slaughter it, instead of easily changing your diet. I can understand the primal need to hunt and kill when the hunter hunts in the nude with no weapon or any other instrument that would make the hunt unfair. I find it more tolerable to kill when the killing is not done in death factories but done in a equal manner with both the prey and the hunter without tools that would aid in one side vs. the other. While I don't really think that animals have souls or anything, they can still feel pain and why would we want to inflict pain on other creatures needlessly? because we are greedy for the taste of meat. For those people who pretend to be vegetarian for moral reasons but still eat fish and other aquatic animals, I want to tell them they are hypocrites! Fish and shrimp are still in our animalia kingdom and therefore deserve all the protection that mammals and other related animals are rewarded. The thing is if you say you don't eat animals then make sure you don't eat animals not just mammalia or birds etc.. Now I think it veganism is even less hypocritical than vegetarianism. If you eat honey you are indirectly killing bees because they are killed and driven out of their homes when the collectors gather the bees' honey. milk- Many people say, "If you don't milk a cow it will die because it's stomach will explode and so we have to drink milk and stuff." Whoever says that is wrong! If we didn't perpetually impregnate the cows then they wouldn't produce excess milk and we would be able to let them roam free like we wish to be. Since milk is used in yogurt and cheese it is obvious to see how these things should be excluded from diet. Eggs like milk are caused when humans artificially impregnate animals. This is even worse because you are stunting the developement of new life form and not just the life forms food. If the argument of eternal pregnancy isn't convinvcing enough then take into consideration the fact that these animals are brutally beaten near regularly and are fitted into cages not much larger than themselves. That kind of abuse and maltreatment is physialogical (sp?) and psychological torture. If we call ourselves human and disdain from being referred to as beastial then how come we are the ones who are savage and barbaric in the treatment of animals... "when tracking monsters we must watch that we ourselves do not become one" (I know I miss quoted but hey this is a term paper) third leve veganism is he most righteous form of dietary system I can think of. When you are so removed from violence and the cycle of preying on others you haved become a third level vegan. These types of vegans eat only fruit that is ripe and other things like nuts nd beans and reproductive organs of plants. These people have such compassion for life that they eat only the parts of plants that were meant to be eaten. I find this tpe of diet to be extremely difficult but also extremely rewarding. However, it is dangerous to adopt such diets because of the ease in wich one can fall into poor health. It is necassary to balance such diet and fully maintain levels of important nutrients. Finally, while I myself am a vegetarian I wish to be a vegan o some level but I think it is necassary for me to consult a nutritionist beforehand. (originally written at 11:42 pm EasterSunday)