THE HALF @ST VEGETARIAN
Updated May, 2004
You do not see them suffer,
but they do
You do not hear them scream,
but they do Love the Product!
Love the Packaging!
When you really love animals, eventually killing and eating them becomes an issue. The thought
of killing one of the raccoons in my yard is the same as killing one of my cats or the neighbors dog,
let alone skinning, slicing, dicing, gutting and deep frying them.
Several years ago I visited some friends who were raising a calf, the calf even had a name and they patted him as we walked by. In the kitchen, as they removed pork chops from the freezer, they told stories of the wonderful pig they had raised the year before. How fat he was and what a funny guy and how the kids rode around on him. Then one day it was time to put the old boy in the back of the truck and take him to the butcher down the road. A road that the calf was soon to travel. The butcher asked them how many of what kinds of cuts they wanted and drew loin, shoulder, chops etc. on the funny, fat pig with a marker. Apparently this is when you go do other things and come back at another time to pick up what has now become "meat". Now here we were, standing in their kitchen with the pork chops defrosting on the sink, blood running down the drain and these people telling me this story. | |
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