Another Reason For Me To Become A Vegetarian...

[CathyBogart]

I'm not sure why you find that statement so heatbreaking?

Neither am I.

[.sarah]

Because she refers to killing animals as "just another job", that's why. Like the animals don't matter. I'm sure that's not what she means, that's just how I took it.

[jackie]

Because she refers to killing animals as "just another job", that's why. Like the animals don't matter. I'm sure that's not what she means, that's just how I took it.

I never said that animals do not matter. And yes, it is just another job, like a garbage man, a waitress, or a teacher. I love my pets, but some farm animals are on this earth only for food. They were bred and born only as food products, it is not like they were someones pet which was stolen and eaten. I think all "food" animals should be treated fairly while they are alive, but as for giving them before drugs before slaughter, are you kidding me? Like anyone would want to eat a turkey with more added drugs or hormones.

[Miss Z]

i agree that it's a job, but i could never do it. It involves killing. i couldn't live with myself. like i couldn't live with myself if i ate meat.

[.sarah]

I never said that animals do not matter. And yes, it is just another job, like a garbage man, a waitress, or a teacher. I love my pets, but some farm animals are on this earth only for food. They were bred and born only as food products, it is not like they were someones pet which was stolen and eaten. I think all "food" animals should be treated fairly while they are alive, but as for giving them before drugs before slaughter, are you kidding me? Like anyone would want to eat a turkey with more added drugs or hormones.

But they already have lots of added hormones that are horrible for you to digest in the first place. What's another one matter? And there's other ways to kill humanely -- being shot in just the right place, or taking an axe to birds throats to kill them instantly. And either way I was just trying to make the point that the animals suffer when they die. I had no idea before I went veggie, and maybe it is just because I am young, or maybe because I am an optimist, but I'm not going to put up with that. I can't support that!

I still don't think it's just another job. Just because they're raised for food? So what, it's still cruel.

Oh, and as far as them being treated fairly -- they usually aren't, and by buying the companies' "products" that do not treat their animals fairly, you are supporting it.

[.sarah]

i agree that it's a job, but i could never do it. It involves killing. i couldn't live with myself. like i couldn't live with myself if i ate meat.

Glad to see someone on here is on the same page as me. It's hard to change meat-eaters' minds. I never would have listened to another person. I had to see them being killed in a video and once the video was over I told myself I'd never eat meat again. That was exactly one week before Thanksgiving lol. So it's been over a year now

[Miss Z]

Same here. I read about the suffering of slaughterhouse-bound animals in a magazine and i saw a programme about farming and was put off for life. The farmer walked down a line of cows and kept saying 'this one's ready...and this one...etc' and they were lead away to be slaughtered. I will always be a veggie. I was also reading the other day that veggies in general have a healthier lifestyle and live longer than other people.

[jackie]

.Sarah, didn't I see photos not too long ago of your dogs retrieving birds? After your pets retrieve these dead birds, what do you do with them? And in another thread I saw you mention that you don't think hunting is wrong as long as the hunters use what they kill.

Can you please explain to me how all these things are so different to raising animals for food, and what makes them ok to you?