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In Reply to: Re: This will change your mind about red meat posted by Do wap on September 14, 2002 at 08:59:34:
I've heard these stories and I'm sure there are plenty of places that practice this. However, I live in a 4-h community and they don't practice these things, just the opposite. I don't eat veal and that sounds pretty disgusting to take away a young calf from its mother, however, I have to meander through herds of cattle who are left to wander the hillsides at their whim, they are pretty pampered, as far as I can tell. All they do is eat and walk to the next green patch. The only thing that seems to be on their minds is "what's for lunch." They are truly the bottom of the food chain. What I don't like is that they have ruined our countryside so that we will never know how it looked when the Indians lived here. We will never be able to experience our land in its indigenous, natural state, thanks to their constant trampling of the plants and the grass seed dispersed for their consumption. And they deposit filth into the streams and waters so that they are no longer suitable for drinking. As far as the pain in breeding and killing argument, I get more of that in watching nature videos and my dog. If my dog finds a little critter, she kills it, just out of her genetic structure. As if man is the only one that kills for food? Or kills inhumanely? Just watch how animals kill each other - watch a stupid cat play with its prey while it's bleeding and dying. I don't know - it's all pretty sick to me. So, all the arguments don't mean too much to me.
I don't know what the answer is, but I agree that being a vegetarian is probably a pretty good thing and more healthy. The idea that Berg had that people became too passive if they didn't eat meat I think is stupid. I'd probably be more into eating less meat if I wasn't married to a meat and potatoes man. It's no fun cooking two separate meals.
