Love the Lorax wrote:I am such a coward... I don't know if I can bring my self to watch it, even though I should. I'm the one who couldn't stand to watch Shindler's List because I'm so sensitive. Reading about these things gets to me in a big way.
I am the same way Love the Lorax! I had to turn away when i watched the only gory scene right at the end of Fast food nation. I really don't know if I could watch the blood and gore.
Thank you for sharing this post Debbie.
My own journey to veganism began solely as a journey towards better health (after learning I was a celiac, cooking only whole foods, reading the China Study, and then learning I had many food sensitivities on top of the gluten). My husband joined me on my path to low fat, whole foods veganism because he was thoroughly convinced by the China Study---his family has a major history of heart disease and cancer and we both wanted to do everything possible to avoid those diseases (I was 27, he was 30 when we began this journey).
After all the reading and DVD watching I've done since then, I am becoming much more of an ethical vegan as well. It's not something I would yet comfortably share with others because everyone we know believes meat and dairy are very healthy foods--my husband's family spent decades running dairy farms! but I am not ok with factory farming, I am not ok with the meat we buy in stores, or the eggs and milk our society blindly indulges in.
I am also a christian and this also affects my view of meat/dairy. I don't believe it's a sin to eat meat and dairy. The men in my family hunt. They kill one moose each year and share all the meat between the whole family. If I am going to ever eat a piece of meat again, it will be something I know has been killed humanely and that has lived a respectful life in nature. (That said, I don't enjoy meat--I used to eat it only because I 'had to'. I was thrilled when I read the China Study and learned it was not only necessary, but actually detrimental to my health to eat it. Yeah!!) It is the torture, neglect, indifference, and greed of the meat and dairy industry and the North American culture that I have a problem with. Such excess, waste, and lack of concern for humanity and ethics.
Thank you for sharing,
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