I gave up red meat and chicken when I was in High school sometime in the year 2000. I really had no real reason, it just felt like the right thing at the time and I might have gone along with the reason that I gave it up for “health” reasons. After all I was 20 pounds heavier and had high cholesterol. But my reasons have changed now. I feel that it is necessary as a human being to respect the life of others, including animals. This is very important for me because a lot of animals are becoming extinct and or used in industries and markets to benefit human kind. Mass production has caused our industries to become cheaper, and the animals aren’t treated fairly and usually kept in such horrible conditions. This pains me greatly, it is the inconvenient truth for all, and the majority of people aren’t willing to change it. I think that once we start distancing ourselves from others, we can easily distance ourselves from reality. I am now a full vegetarian, because I don’t want to live in denial and I love being able to control my eating habits knowing that I have discipline. It took a lot of truth to open my eyes to the reality. I hope that my post encourages others to do some research about the foods (animals) you may be eating. If you want any additional information on factory farming industries go to this web site and meet your meat: http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
Here are some cool quotes by famous vegetarians,
I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore. -Alicia Silverstone
I’ve been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It’s been all good. I’m obviously much healthier -Woody Harrelson
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction. -Moby
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. -Mohandas Gandhi
Animals are my friends-and I don’t eat my friends. -George Bernard Shaw
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we’re not contributing to their pain. -Paul and Linda McCartney
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -Albert Einstein
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat. -Vincent Van Gogh
May all that have life be delivered from suffering. -Buddha
