Not only are the health benefits amazing, yes including that wieght loss stuff, but…it is also for the animals. If everyone knew how animals are “factory farmed” in order for us to continue our “meaty” ways everyone would either DEMAND tougher laws on factory farming, especially around downer animals, battery cages, veal crates and birthing crates, and/or help the independent organic farmers more!
I was one of those people that refused to really become aware of where and how our food is brought to our lives. I’ve been the type of person that said the same old same old, “I’ll never give up meat, i wouldn’t get enough protein” blah, blah, blah. When I started to research/read i have never been so so sad, disheartened, appalled and thankful for someone finally opening my eyes to real truth behind the meat industry and to the benefits of great, great food.
I now know that vegetables, fruit, legumes, grains, nuts can and will provide you with the best nutrition without the meat. Actually, once you do the research, meat, eggs, milk, and the white stuff (sugar, pasta, rice)is not as nutritional as you would assume.
It is time the world realized that the animals you see on commercials are actually cariactures of what the animals are that are “farmed”. What blows my mind more than anything is that humans/people have become so inhumane, violent and desensitized to the pain and suffering we inflict on these animals. Where male calves are taking away from their mothers the first week of their little lives and put into cages so small and dark with NO interaction with other calves to fatten them up for our VEAL. When animals are so sick that they can’t get up off the floor of their “pens” so they are left there to die and put on the dead pile and sometimes the animals are not yet dead and they are put on the dead pile to be left to suffer (downers), where chickens in order to lay eggs are put in cages so small that they can’t stretch their wings they are on wire cages and their legs and feet atrophy in order to produce our EGGS, chickens have their beaks cut off so they won’t peak other chickens in order for us to have roasting HENS, where cows are feed an abhorrent amount of antibiotics, steroids, etc in order to produce massive amounts of MILK, where beef cattle become so large in order to produce our MEAT that their legs give out on them and then they are slaughtered. I can’t begin to explain what happends to pigs, sheep, goats, turkeys or what happens at the slaughter houses, it is too sickening. After the animals are slaughtered for human consumption the rest is cooked up and ground with road kill,yes road kill or other animal control animals, euthanized pets, to be made into cosmetics, candles, soaps, lubricants and then the heavier is ground up into a powder and feed to our back to our animals including our farmed animals. Does this make sense, NOT TO ME…most farm animals are herbivores, not omnivores or even cannibals.
I realize that becoming a vegan, vegetarian, raw foodie is a choice, but once you start reading books such as Farm Sanctuary, Mad Cow, Skinny Bitches, Dominion, etc., watch documentaries, watch dvd’s (Earthlings) they are violent and graphic but you will realize there is actually no choice.
What i want from everyone is to start becoming educated, don’t turn a blind eye, rip the band-aid off (by the way animals as used as test subjects for band aids, gross) and start to ask questions, read, read, read and become involved, don’t be a follower, start reading packaging ie lanolin is made from sheep and urea is pee!
So thank you to Gabie, Tanya, Shawna and the people that write the books, fight for legislation to change laws, the protestors, etc. I have now joined the campaign.
