HELP!! Animal Abuse...I can't eat!!?!
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!!
I grew up on a farm. We ate eggs that our neighbors raised. One time my mom cracked open an egg and it had a mostly formed dead chick in it. I didn't eat eggs for a long time after that, but I still ate things made with eggs like cake because they didn't remind me of that dead chick. Another time we were going to butcher a cow and my brother dared me to watch him kill the cow, knowing that I was a little more sensitive to these things than him. The cow was sick and laying down. My brother hit the cow between the eyes with the hammer. It was alive and sick one second and then dead the next. I don't watch animals being butchered any more, not because I can't stand it, but because I'm not morbid. I'm very familiar with the inside of a butcher shop. Most animals that are killed for consumption die very quickly. You will be shown shocking worst-case scenario, heavily edited "death scenes" by people trying to make a point, but it's mostly lies. All slaughterhouses are carefully regulated, including PETA hanging out at almost everyone, trying to catch a slip-up.The rare ones they do, they parade out in front of the unknowing public like it's the norm. I understand that eating meat can make people feel uncomfortable, and if you can't eat it for a while because you are disturbed, or if you give it up forever, that's OK. Don't let anyone, veggie or omni force you into their view, though. :)
well im a vegetarian and have been since i was like 4 or 5 years old. if you think that stuff is wrong, then why not become one too?
Well that is a great reason to be a vegetarian.
Someone had a great quote. Something like, "When Americans do evil, it is through their corporations". Of course it was a corporation you saw killing cows in that video.
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act is abstinence of injury to animals." -Leo Tolstoy
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-- Gandhi
Well, I'm not a vegetarian, but I can tell you that I only eat from places that properly kill the animals humanely. And trust me, every single factory where animals are slaughtered for food are visited by Humane Rights companies every year to prevent that kind of stuff. Hope this puts your mind to rest =D
Our society has done a very good job of sanitizing the process of killing and eating meat. Not only do we not have to do it ourselves, we don't even have to know when, where, or how it is done. We don't want to know that the animals suffer. We don't want to face the fact that the food was once a living, breathing creature that felt fear and pain. We certainly don't want to admit we are responsible for its death and that it was a cruel death. Everyone who eats meat should have to witness in person what you saw on the video. If it is too horrible to bear, then you should not eat meat. I gave it up for those very reasons about 5 years ago. Seeing trucks on the road full of animals suffering and heading to their death made me feel guilty. Knowing I was the cause of animals' deaths made me feel to bad to continue to eat meat. I admire that you feel bad about it. It shows that you are a person of compassion and conscience. Think about vegeratianism-take it in steps if you have to. It's a much healthier, compassionate lifestyle.
What you will see in any of these videos is worst-case scenarios, not the norm. They are meant to shock into refusing to use one set of food products and to choose another. It's marketing plain and simple.
Don't eat meat for a while. If you stay that way good for you, if you don't, good for you!
I know exactly what you are going through, I have struggled to make sense of the horror and cruelty animals are subjected to my whole life. I know I can't stop the suffering, but I can ensure that I am not responsible for it - which is why I'm veggie and have been for nearly 20 years. I still find it hard, some of the awful things that I have seen animals endure will stay with me forever and it angers me when people try to deny or otherwise rationalise what happens in abattoirs all over the world. All animals reared for meat suffer during their lives and at their slaughter - despite what some naive people will tell you.
You sound like a conscientious and compassionate person, you probably won't be able to erase those images from your memory but you can go vegetarian and make sure you are not contributing to these animals suffering.
All the best.
View these posters to your mum.
(Some slaughtered picture, do not see if you don't want to know the thing that you eat)
http://aycu06.webshots.com/image/34725/2...
I do not know who upload that, but a great effort. It may be fake (or cartoon, whatever), but is a reality happening.
I ever seen my niece grievance to her mum that she deluded animal crying and screaming everytime seeing the animal butchered displayed or served. It maybe funny, but a reality. Finally her mum decided not to force-feed with meat.
You are in fact absolutely normal, despite the norm.
This isn't anything new. this has been happening for centuries. its only new to you because YOU just found out what they really do. its all for money.
thats why its called SLAUGHTER.
the most you can do it just go vegan or vegetarian (if ur not comfortable with eating it) but i guarantee that this wont stop... people are to insensitive.
btw, ur parents cant force you to eat meat.... if you want it eat it, but dont say that you dont feel comfortable with eating it, and then eat it... contradicting yourself is pathetic.
you obviously dont know where you stand
Maybe you'll feel better if you know it isn't your fault? If you stop eating meat? If you read the book Fast Food Nation (There is a chapter explaining where their meat comes from), it gives a pretty good indication of what happens in slaughter houses. I haven't really heard of what you described, but it's still pretty horrible.
If you don't want to eat meat, just tell your parents that. Tell them you don't really want to eat something that was brutally slaughtered. Your parents might just think whatever you're just goin gthrough a faze, you'll get over it. If you aren't, they'll realize that. My family also is really into eating meat. They still don't accept it 100%. If you decide to be vegetarian, have a good debate prepared for why you don't want to eat meat. Your parents might try to tell you you're a tree hugger and what about those poor carrots you just ate? etc.
Good luck with what you decide.
Read a book called Slaughterhouse, it will let you know what goes on in those places. People that once worked in slaughterhouses are telling about it all in the book. I am super sensitive when it comes to animal abuse, I never forget things that I see and when I see something it takes sometimes a few days to stop thinking about it constantly and how that must feel for the animals it is happening too. To help with that I do all I can do to help them (being vegetarian, not buying things that were tested on, donate ect...), that helps me remember that I am not (as far as I can know) contributing to that torture. I also stay away from the news and anything that has images or videos of abuse, I also try to talk with other vegetarians.
Factory farms (where most meat you get in stores is from) are not like the small slaughterhouses there used to be, they kill the animals at a far more quicker pace, making it very hard to kill the animals quickly. The animals also don't get to graze or do anything that is natural to them because they keep them indoors with concrete floors for their whole lives until they are transported in huge semi truck with two or three upper rows hundreds of miles away to a slaughterhouse. I worked in a hotel once and a regular customer there drove all the way from Kansas to Ohio to take cows to slaughter. I don't just get information from Peta or any groups like that, factory farms are known about in the news also, it is not made up stuff. I have even seen a piece about it on my local news channel.
I know this is not the PC answer but I ingore those videos and the ad's. I can't handle seeing those images. I still eat meat but in a moderate way. I don't eat weird animals just chicken and some beef but not much. I don't think you will ever 'get over it'. You just have to learn to deal with it. I know it will be hard at first but soon you will overcome it.