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The link that i have put in my journal goes to a news story about PETA.
The reason i posted it is because it hit me hard. I would really like some opinions from the rest of you on how it made you feel....honest opinions. I will not judge you for yours if you can do the same for me.
I have eaten meat my entire life without a second thought about what i was doing. I go to my local grocer and purchase it as if it was toothpaste or bread.
I have had many vegan/vegetarian friends tell me their views and it just has never hit hard enough for me to question myself on my choice to have an animal as part of my diet. This story/campaign did.
The controversy arises from their comparison of the enslavement of animals to the enslavement of people.
Many that saw the pictures they used as degrading. Many that read the story agreed with that view.
I read the story and right away felt sick to my stomach. Not because I saw the degradation that others did but because I felt that i was adding to the inhumanity of mankind by blindly making the choices that i have made with a total disregard to another living being.
I should make myself clear that I do understand the viewpoint of those who felt disgusted at the comparisons. I also do not in any way feel that any race or religion should have to be subjected to the feeling of being seen as inferior because of PETA's tactics. I suppose what I am saying is that it just didn't strike me in the same manner.
I should let you know that I am considered a minority (Native American). I have been stared at and point blankly asked rude questions as long as I can remember. Still when I read this and saw how shocking the comparisons were, I was shook to the core, not because I felt their usage of posters portraying Native Americans being exiled from their homes made my heritage or me as an individual seem any less significant but because what I have been doing without a stab of conviction for 23 years. It made me ill to think of treating another living breathing being in this manner.
Am I saying that as of tomorrow I am going to say no to meat? At this point I really do not know...but I am glad that the decision I make will no longer be the one that i have made blindly up to this point.
So tell me what you think. I refuse to judge you for your views as my own are still unsettled as is.
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this was my journal that i had put up earlier today and i recieved two great comments and then because my day went all of a sudden shitty i felt the need to change it.
if the two lovey gentlemen that left comments earlier would do me a favor and copy and paste them back on here so everyone could see them that would be really great. THANKS
The link that i have put in my journal goes to a news story about PETA.
The reason i posted it is because it hit me hard. I would really like some opinions from the rest of you on how it made you feel....honest opinions. I will not judge you for yours if you can do the same for me.
I have eaten meat my entire life without a second thought about what i was doing. I go to my local grocer and purchase it as if it was toothpaste or bread.
I have had many vegan/vegetarian friends tell me their views and it just has never hit hard enough for me to question myself on my choice to have an animal as part of my diet. This story/campaign did.
The controversy arises from their comparison of the enslavement of animals to the enslavement of people.
Many that saw the pictures they used as degrading. Many that read the story agreed with that view.
I read the story and right away felt sick to my stomach. Not because I saw the degradation that others did but because I felt that i was adding to the inhumanity of mankind by blindly making the choices that i have made with a total disregard to another living being.
I should make myself clear that I do understand the viewpoint of those who felt disgusted at the comparisons. I also do not in any way feel that any race or religion should have to be subjected to the feeling of being seen as inferior because of PETA's tactics. I suppose what I am saying is that it just didn't strike me in the same manner.
I should let you know that I am considered a minority (Native American). I have been stared at and point blankly asked rude questions as long as I can remember. Still when I read this and saw how shocking the comparisons were, I was shook to the core, not because I felt their usage of posters portraying Native Americans being exiled from their homes made my heritage or me as an individual seem any less significant but because what I have been doing without a stab of conviction for 23 years. It made me ill to think of treating another living breathing being in this manner.
Am I saying that as of tomorrow I am going to say no to meat? At this point I really do not know...but I am glad that the decision I make will no longer be the one that i have made blindly up to this point.
So tell me what you think. I refuse to judge you for your views as my own are still unsettled as is.
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this was my journal that i had put up earlier today and i recieved two great comments and then because my day went all of a sudden shitty i felt the need to change it.
if the two lovey gentlemen that left comments earlier would do me a favor and copy and paste them back on here so everyone could see them that would be really great. THANKS
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