Is anyone here a closet vegan?
I do not have enough courage to wear a PETA shirt. I recently told a close friend that it is economically impossible to raise an animal humanely for food consumption. Hamburgers at McDonald's would go up in price to $100 each. He said that I could get ethically raised meat from Whole Foods.
I do not have the courage to tell my friend this story.
I can imagine a pig going to slaughter. We will call the missing pig, "Jane". The other pigs think where is "Jane?" They cry for a few days. They do not eat enough food. They are very depressed. In the meantime, Mary got sick partly from depression. She misses Jane. Mary does not get any antibiotics because that would be "inhumane." Four weeks later, Mary goes missing. Actually, the farmer panicked because Mary has to get to the slaughter house alive. Otherwise, it is a huge financial hit.
Mary arrives at an ice cold slaughter house. She gets sprayed down by cold water for hygiene reasons. That has got to hurt. Remember that Mary is sick. She gets sent down a conveyor belt while restrained. Mary is understandably suspicious about the entire operation. She gets stunned by an electric shock. Then a machine is hooked up to her to vacuum out her blood. Was she unconscious while they were sucking out her blood? She was kicking like crazy when the blood was vacuumed out of her. Nah - it was nothing. Or was it.
But, maybe I am just an imperfect vegan a$$hole.
I do not have enough courage to wear a PETA shirt. I recently told a close friend that it is economically impossible to raise an animal humanely for food consumption. Hamburgers at McDonald's would go up in price to $100 each. He said that I could get ethically raised meat from Whole Foods.
I do not have the courage to tell my friend this story.
I can imagine a pig going to slaughter. We will call the missing pig, "Jane". The other pigs think where is "Jane?" They cry for a few days. They do not eat enough food. They are very depressed. In the meantime, Mary got sick partly from depression. She misses Jane. Mary does not get any antibiotics because that would be "inhumane." Four weeks later, Mary goes missing. Actually, the farmer panicked because Mary has to get to the slaughter house alive. Otherwise, it is a huge financial hit.
Mary arrives at an ice cold slaughter house. She gets sprayed down by cold water for hygiene reasons. That has got to hurt. Remember that Mary is sick. She gets sent down a conveyor belt while restrained. Mary is understandably suspicious about the entire operation. She gets stunned by an electric shock. Then a machine is hooked up to her to vacuum out her blood. Was she unconscious while they were sucking out her blood? She was kicking like crazy when the blood was vacuumed out of her. Nah - it was nothing. Or was it.
But, maybe I am just an imperfect vegan a$$hole.