Could you become a vegetarian?

[LuvOrlando]

I love meat but I don't love where it comes from. I think I'd rather buy it from someone in town who I knew was a decent person than from a store... but that's just not an option around here where land is too valuable for housing to waste on farming & livestock. It would be a good thing if local municipalities gave people a tax break if they broke down abandoned homes etc and put farms &/or factories in their place. Imagine fresh eggs, produce and meat from a town center in the biggest cities like NYC and Philadelphia, little state run tax exempt markets scattered around cities to foster a sense of community. Sure it won't happen but I can dream can't I In the meantime I buy and eat meats but I totally feel bad about it when I stop to consider it... which I try not to do to be honest.

 

[Uuaww]

Oh god no... I sweat bacon.

 

[Laura]

Oh god no... I sweat bacon.

I'm a vegetarian but I still found that funny!

 

[NeverlandClub23]

Yeah, I think a slaughterhouse visit is probably what helps a lot of folks realize that if there is another way then it is a better way. I've never, but early this year, some of the teens in our church did, and a couple spoke passionately about their experiences and their feelings about it, and that drove me to make my decision (one I had been casually contemplating for a while).

I agree. Jillian Michael's (one of the trainers from Biggest Loser) has a podcast on iTunes and a few months ago was saying how she went vegetarian after Bob Harper (the other trainer and long time vegetarian) showed her a few videos documenting slaughterhouses. I can't remember the names of any of them now but I watched (a part, I couldn't stomach the whole thing) one of them and it was truely disgusting.

 

[PatriciaH]

Whole Foods and even Target now have free range chicken/eggs and grass fed smaller farmed, no/low antibiotic beef/milk. It may be a bit more (the ground beef is like $1 more per lb. but it tastes better, it is better for you and I feel better buying it.) I also wish we would go back to local farming. I would love to have a small farm someday. We are in Celebration and the other day I grabbed an orange from produce and the cashier laughed that it came from South Africa! I was appalled! How can that even be good anymore? We do have oranges in FL Publix!

 

[pooh101]

Whole Foods and even Target now have free range chicken/eggs and grass fed smaller farmed, no/low antibiotic beef/milk. It may be a bit more (the ground beef is like $1 more per lb. but it tastes better, it is better for you and I feel better buying it.) I also wish we would go back to local farming. I would love to have a small farm someday. We are in Celebration and the other day I grabbed an orange from produce and the cashier laughed that it came from South Africa! I was appalled! How can that even be good anymore? We do have oranges in FL Publix!

Thanks for the info. Pardon my ignorance. I'm really new to this. Doesn't free range just mean they're kept in a large "warehouse" type room so they can move around, but they really can't because there are like 2 or 3chickens per square foot? Similarly, what exactly is "grass fed"? I'd love to think it means free roaming, grazing, "happy cow" type situation, but is this really the case? For me, I think the more important question would be how they slaughter the animals. Is it quick or more like torture? On that site, they show some pretty gruesome stuff done to the animals before they're even dead. Absolutely horrifying!!!!!

 

[disnut1149]

Hi
I haven't eaten meat in 15 years. I never really liked it. I don't like chewing a piece of meat. I hate the texture of it. But the biggest reason that I don't eat meat, is because I love animals and couldn't even imagine eating one. I eat plenty of meat substitutes. No problem with getting protein!!

 

[LaraK]

Oh god no... I sweat bacon.

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