It's the holocaust of the animals!

Why do I feel like animal rights activists are regarded as crazies and wackos? We're an animal aren't we? Just because we can talk and are "civilized" doesn't make us any better than the animals that are tortured on a daily basis. It's so disgusting. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I'm new to this whole thing... but that doesn't make it any harder on me at all, it's actually very easy.

Most people know what's going on. Ask any adult with half a brain about slaughter houses and they know that animals are killed inhumanely and needlessly. However, don't expect those people to tell you that you don't need meat or dairy. The meat and dairy industries have brainwashed Western civilization to think that we need animal products to live. That's completely false.

A few weeks ago I attended a film festival and saw a film about the environmental footprint humans are leaving on earth, and at the beginning of the film, they showed the natives of Alaska killing animals to eat. I kind of understand that. I wish it wasn't in the film I chose to watch, but I get it. It's so cold in Alaska. As far as I know they don't have access to farmland and being able to grow crops the way we do in the lower 48. They are probably killing animals as their only means of survival. Sure, they can import, but if you don't have the money to do that, then you're stuck.

But here, we have access to so much agriculture. We have healthy foods right at our fingertips yet we continue day in and day out to make bad food choices and needlessly harm animals that should symbolize love and harmony, not a dollar sign or a meal plate.

Why does that sound tacky? Why do animal lovers have this lame stigma?

So let's forget about that. Let's just think in terms of health.

Why do we want to consume cancerous, bloody, hormone infused, cardiac arrested, diseased, mutilated animals anyway? Addiction? The blind confusion that we need it? It's all about consciousness. How can we spend an hour making the decision to wear a sweater or jacket (a decision that ultimately in the grand scheme of life doesn't matter), but refuse to spend a fraction of that time to learn about what's going into our bodies? Is it a subconscious knowledge that we already have that we don't want to face? Is it pure laziness? Or is it that we're so brainwashed to think that eating meat and drinking milk is good for us, that it doesn't even phase us to think about it?

Now let's forget about that. Let's pretend that we know all of that stuff. Let's pretend I'm a meat eater who knows how bad animals are being treated, who knows how bad this meat and dairy is for me given the conditions of the animals and just by default (cholesterol, etc), what now? Shouldn't the choice be simple?

Well I was that meat eater. I learned what I needed to learn, and the choice was simple.

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