HELP!! I can't eat...animal abuse!!?!
This morning my mom served me breakfast, eggs, sausage, and toast. But the only thing I could eat was the toast. I just kept thinking...."I wonder what horrible way those people killed these animals." I couldn't eat...and I feel like I won't be able to for a while.
I'm sensitive when it comes to this stuff...and I'm 15. Very mature for my age...but I just couldn't stand that video.
Can someone help me? And tell me what I can do now to get over this animal abuse stuff? PLEASE HELP!!
Answers: Last night I was on myspace. I was just minding my own business when there was a bulletin about animal abuse. It was a video! I watched half of it...how people kill cows. They cut their throats and tear out their trachea. But what's so sad is...they're still alive even after that! They dump them out of this machine and they're trying to run away! It's so sad...it's terrible. I stopped watching the video there. But I can't get those images out of my head.
This morning my mom served me breakfast, eggs, sausage, and toast. But the only thing I could eat was the toast. I just kept thinking...."I wonder what horrible way those people killed these animals." I couldn't eat...and I feel like I won't be able to for a while.
I'm sensitive when it comes to this stuff...and I'm 15. Very mature for my age...but I just couldn't stand that video.
Can someone help me? And tell me what I can do now to get over this animal abuse stuff? PLEASE HELP!!
Then you're just going to have to not think about it. Distract yourself while you're eating and eventually it won't even bother you any more. And if it does you're just going to have to go vegetarian :)
I also don't suggest ever becoming a food science major. Here at PSU they make you work in the slaughter house for a semester.
I'll see if I can find you something better to help alleviate the thoughts though.
I found this for the order things happen. I was pretty sure when I first read your post that something was wrong. The cows are *knocked unconscious first* then they severe the vessels in the neck killing them which is one of the fastest ways of killing an animal so large. To most vegetarians the fact that the cow is unconsious and isn't aware of what's going on isn't a comfort, but I thought that it might make you feel better.
I posted the link, but I don't suggest reading it if you're very sensitive.
There's nothing wrong with being a vegetarian but just do what you feel is right. You're old enough to make that decision by yourself.
you can not eat meat, but still the same taste from other things like veggie burgers and soy burgers and hot dogs. If you really dont want to support that, then dont eat it...
simple.
Things die so that we can live. Just the way things are. You can try to Jade yourself against it, but that's kind of sad. I recommend that you try to write down how you feel. Use art to express yourself, vent. Eat what you can, when you get hungry enough to try, eat in smaller portions (less meat) and work your way back to normal. Try vegetarian, you might like it.
if you dont like the slaughtering then eat kosher. they treat the animals very respectfully and honor it.
i dont see why your family would be upset that you want to try something new. they shouldent stop you from finding yourself , your nearly an adult and if you want to be a vegetarian they should support you it is a very healthy lifestyle. check this out http://www.goveg.com/feat/chewonthis/
that is not the mainstream way they kill cattle (i saw the video) usually it is a single bullet in the head (instant death) however the slotter of poultry is much more horrible... if you want to help the animals become a veg*n however if you eat eggs and milk use local free range because that means the hens have a good life of grass instead of crowded metal cages and the cows have pastures instead of feed lots and if your parents object to vegetarianism than only eat free range meat (its still meat but at least the animal had a good life while it lasted)
Just don't eat cows. It's bad for you anyway. I think beef is so gross but that's probably because we never had any growing up - the only meat we had was whatever was in the woods 'cuz we were sooo poor, like Feed The Children poor.
Get over it, there just animals that's what happens in the real world you just have to accept that fact and move on. It's a part of life
things die so that we can live. now i understand your only 15 but sooner or later you have to realize things like that need to be done and not become one of these bleeding hearts that are out there!! I have been hunting, trapping and fishing my whole life and i utilize what i take be it fur or meat nothing goes to waste and what you saw is not abuse.Abuse is having a horse lets say and you don't feed them and there nothing but skin and bone that's abuse try watching animal 911 or other progams like that on animal planet and you'll see the difference between abuse and what's done to secure meat or fur to live on.Just put it out of your mind and i hope you'll be able to eat soon again!! There's a lot of yummies out there that you have'nt tried yet that are delicious
If you think you can't eat meat, then fine, so be it. That's a choice you are allowed to take. (with your parents permssion of course since you are a minor) But if you think that abstaining from meat will save those animals, then you are sadly mistaken. That's an illusion that vegetarians suffer from because they think they are doing their part to prevent animal abuse. Majority of the popultion consumes meat and a minority segment will not decrease the demand significantly (not enough to matter anyway) If you are serious about that, stay in school, maybe become an advocate (not an activist like PETA who antagonize more than raise awareness) or a lawyer and mybe make a diffrence.
Strange theat vegetarians always say "your family SHOULD" support you. How about "you" supporting your family? One thing certain about the fanatics here, they will not be around if you run into some problems with your family. Not a single one.
I think the only thing you can do if you don't want to stop eating meat is just force yourself to eat it until you're OK with it again. It'll take a while for those images to leave your head, and maybe they never will...and maybe you'll end up being vegetarian because of it. Like me, I'm a vegetarian, but not by choice really. I'm just so grossed out by eating meat I can't do it anymore. I hope you don't end up where I am because it sucks. lol
If you need to believe that animals aren't tortured in order to feel good about eating them, I hope you manage to convince yourself of that, but animals raised for food live horrible lives and die horrible deaths. If you're going to eat meat you have to be able to accept that as part of life...because sadly it is a part of this life. Most people still eat meat, and you're not a bad person if you continue to do so!