Sorry, I can't be vegetarian right now

Patsy 2022-11-20 11:01:55

It's really shocking, even if I've heard of this before, but when the cruel picture is naked in front of me, I can't pretend.
I don't want to be indifferent, I'm very sad, but let me stop eating meat from now on, I can't do it, I'm so ashamed. Is it appetite? I care more about nutrition and health (I still believe in meat nutrition, I still believe in this concept, I don’t know if it is correct or not), or I care more about this cheap nutrition (compared to nuts and other supplements, maybe I am wrong) . Could it be that this is just my excuse?
I am very selfish. Our consumption of meat has caused cows, pigs, sheep and chickens to suffer such terrifying pain. I know, I see, I can no longer choose to be ignorant like before, thinking that "people eat meat too." But it is the balance of the natural ecology.” However, the existence of human beings is precisely the current stage of human beings, who have already escaped the natural way of living, and do not follow the rules of nature. What kind of hell is an intensive breeding farm. We hid in front of a civilized dining table, chatting and laughing about animal protection. I have been thinking about devoting myself to the protection of wild animals and ecology. There is no doubt that wild animals must be protected. However, what should I do with farmed animals? Is vegetarianism the only way? I can convince myself that "animal farming and meat consumption are okay, as long as we don't abuse them and allow them to live well", well, assuming we do get farmed animals to live well and "kosher slaughter" "(It's so difficult, there are too many humans, and the consumption is too high, so there will be intensive large-scale farming, and this involves economics and interests), but, do you want to eat very old meat? It's not about slaughtering it when the meat is delicious, he's just an adult, not to mention the options of "veal". Isn't it cruel, taking lives, and what could be more evil than this? Yes, abuse, we did that too.
Pets, animal products (furs, etc.), animal entertainment, I can stand on the moral high ground and condemn those irresponsible owners who abandon pets, do not do birth control, ignorant consumers of flashy luxury, ignorant audiences who take animal pain for fun, and even Hate those related industrial chains such as pet breeding farms, poachers, factories, animal trainers, etc. for profit, everything is for money. "No business, no harm", how many things we humans have done with blood and tears.
Regarding animal research, I reserve it. The documentary says that animal experiments are unnecessary, but this is not the case. It's just that we are cruel, the experiments are cruel, and we are ashamed of those lives. I've done things like this, I've air-injected mice (which is already mild), and our animal experiments are cruel, no doubt. May we be grateful for their sacrifices with reverence and shame.
I'm sorry, I'm still very selfish, I know it, but I'm still indifferent, I can still taste the animals.
In freshman year or before, I woke up to the realization that "humans are just a member of the earth" and believed that I was not a speciesist. I really don't understand why human beings can escape to this extent, why should they escape to this extent?

After reading other people's film reviews (especially the one who said that the slaughterhouse is not so cruel, and is also working hard to develop in a better direction), I also feel that I should live my own life first (except for eating meat, I still love these creatures very much) ), do your best to make the world a better place.

Perhaps, we humans just happened to reach this top. If other creatures occupy it, they will enslave humans in the same way.

Society is still evolving.

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  • [first lines]

    title card: earth-ling n. - One who inhabits the earth.

    Narrator: Since we all inhabit the earth, we are all considered earthlings. There is no sexism, racism, or speciesism in the term 'earthling'. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm- or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and human alike.

  • Narrator: It is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by 'speciesism'. By analogy with racism and sexism, speciesism is a prejudice or attitude or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.