No Cause for Celebration: Murder
Rated TV-14 for Mature Content. Even though kids participate.
Honestly, I’m doing this for three reasons:
1. I can tolerate watching fake murders on TV and movies, but cannot tolerate seeing any media that shows animals being abused, tortured, mutilated, injured, or killed.
2. I haven’t blogged in a while about anything, much less anything important.
3. I want a free tofurkey. Isn’t that a cute name, too?!
But, now on to a more serious issue.
How can we still be so cruel to animals?
For some of you who don’t know, I have been vegetarian since May of this year, 2008. Initially, I was inspired not only because I used to have chickens as pets and think they’re great as companions, but because I was shocked and disgusted by the gargantuan amounts of hormones that are pumped into all of these animals, that not only make them over-sized horrendously, but also make those antibiotics transfer to us. The meat industry uses more antibiotics than humans do. It’s just disgusting all around.
Some people say you “need meat” to survive. I think I’d hear about vegetarians and vegans dying regularly then, wouldn’t you?
I don’t get what our twisted fetish is with eating meat. I wish I wasn’t raised that way, but I’ve changed now, and I couldn’t be happier.
So, why the main spur of a call to action from my (highly limited) group of readers? I saw a few words on PETA2′s Pledge page [link], worded very well from Marta on peta2.com’s site:
* No animal was tortured in the making of a Tofurky.
* No one has to stick her/his hand up a turkey’s butt. Tofurkys don’t have butts.
* Tofurky roasts are available practically everywhere.
* Turkeys will be thankful.
The one that stuck out, though, was this one:
* Murder should never be cause for celebration.
How disturbingly true. Let’s be thankful that we painfully slaughtered this animal and made it suffer from the moment it was born so we can ingest chemicals and its pain and suffering. I’m so incredibly disgusted.
I still have the images of videos I had seen years ago of animals being tortured for their fur, and they’re still with me. I couldn’t bear to watch the video, but if you have the stomach for it, and if it will help you in going against meat, not just for one day, but indefinitely, please do it.
If you want to be brave, and make a difference, go ahead and sign the pledge:
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/p2thanksgivingpledge
You’re doing the right thing. Turkeys will be grateful. Wouldn’t that be nice? Animals that can’t hurt you, that never hurt you, that never did anything wrong to you, won’t have to suffer for your pleasure?
Sounds good to me.