Comments | tino_bambino: goodbyes

tino_bambino

goodbyes

Oct 27, 2006 10:01

Yesterday was (probably) the last lab I'll have this semester in the dairy barn. I probably won't get to see the chicks again, or the piglets, or some of the cows. We went to weigh our chicks the other day and I said goodbye to them and the pigs. Chances are these animals will either be slaughtered in a few weeks or sent to be breeders, or maybe ( Read more... )

veggie stuff, school, pictures

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tino_bambino October 29 2006, 20:23:18 UTC

Yeah, I put my mood as 'blank' because that's exactly how I feel when I think about people not caring. I just can't comprehend how they can be so compassionate towards pets, wildlife, or even the baby farm animals and then turn around and pay someone to buy a piece of a creature that was basically tortured. It's just so confusing to me that I don't know how to react, you know? I just don't get how people can have this attitude. It's like, in some Asian countries people farm dogs & cats for their meat/fur/skin, but many north americans would be disgusted by the idea and not want anything to do with it. Yet in those countries, cats & dogs are seen as animals that are there for poeple to eat, just how we see pigs/cows/birds/etc. You could say that most people who live here "know better" than to think that those cats/dogs are there for that reason. I don't understand what the difference is when it comes to the 'livestock' we eat ( ... )

cont'd tino_bambino October 29 2006, 20:23:39 UTC

I definitely agree with you though. I'd rather be aware of how my choices affect others and make those choices based on that knowledge. I think it's pretty irresponsible not to. People are just so blinded by what industries and companies want them to see, and I hate that it works. In one of my courses (environmental type stuff) we recently did an online conference about GMOs, and people were going "yeah, Ithink in about 10 years or so, GMOs will make up most of our food supply" Meanwhile, in reality, almost all of our produce is already genetically modified, and people are ignorant to it because there is no mandatory labeling of these foods. Same with cage eggs. Just the fact that people are tricked into buying these foods thinking they're something else raises a flag in my mind: if the producers of the products are not telling you what the products really are, should you be concerned about eating them? Shouldn't that in itself tell you there may be something morally (or otherwise) questionable about those products? It's really ( ... )