Animals today bred to be eaten are routinely abused. Chickens have their beaks sliced off and the male baby chicks are literally thrown into a grinder cause in the egg laying industry they are of no use. Pigs have their ears, teeth and are castrated when they are babies. Cows in both the beef and dairy industries are also severely mistreated. Baby cows are taken away from their mothers when they are extremely young and this causes both the mom and baby severe stress. Imagine a human mother having her infant taken away from her forever after she gave birth and was ready to be a mom.
Also human's anatomy seems to closely resemble herbivores instead of carinvores. We have long instestings (unlike carnivores) and when we eat meat it literally decays in our intestings cause harmful effects on our bodies. People who eat meat consume less fiber cause there is no fiber in meat products. We don't have the natural things carnivores have to hunt their food. Our teeth aren't sharp enough to tear off flesh, we have no claws, and we are an extremely slow speices (even chickens can outrun the fastest human). That being said can you imagine a person going up to a chicken and biting a chunk of flesh off it and saying how much they enjoyed it. I don't think so. We have to cook our food so it tastes and appears more appealing and also cause if we don't there are many diseases we could get. Think about it.
i would say, do you know whats going into your body? man you wouldn't believe. then I'd pull out my fact sheets and stuff that i got from peta and go on and on. it actually worked, i got some friends to think about becoming a vegetarian. :D
You have to know exactly what you're putting in your body. You owe it to your self, your cells, and your kids! Just remember how you feel every time you eat red meat, and I know how it feel having that meat in your system for 3 days!! I ate carne asada and cheese burgers 3 times a week, and I never felt satisfied.
I try to encourage people to look at what they eat from an ethical and utilitarian position, as this is what convinced me to go from vegetarian to vegan. By not eating meat you are reducing the suffering of animals and lessening the impact on the environment. I tell people about the statistics related to factory farming, and even show them videos of the cruelty. Often meat eaters can't stand to watch them, even though they are happy to support such a disgraceful industry. I also tell people about battery hens,and the suffering that those hens go through just so you can enjoy an omlette on Sunday morning. I debunk the diet myths that meat eaters constantly perpetuate - "But where will you get protein from!!" - and provide them with information on how fulfilling and fun a vegan diet is. I always cook vegan food for people, and make my friends vegan cupcakes, and they are always surprised when they love them!
This book looks great too. Reading Peter Singers "Animal Liberation" and "The Ethics of What We Eat", as well as doing much of my own research, is what convinced me. I think more people out there need to be convinced, or at least made aware of the truth of where their food comes from.
"You realize that by eating animals your not saving the earth, beside you really don't know what you eating and what goes on in factory farming.What goes on is just heart breaking and I don't know why you would want animals to suffer. So please, do the animals a favor and stop eating meat, because animals are people too."
Our mothers love us
We love our Mothers
Chickens love their chicks
Chicks love their mothers
Cows love their calves
Calves love their mothers
Pigs love their piglets
Piglets love their mothers
They don't eat our babies
Why eat their babies
I'd tell someone:
Hey! You know how your always complaining about your jeans not fitting? Will go Vegetarian, you don't need all of that unncessary meat!! Besides, you do know what they do to all the animals right? They, SLAUGHTER THEM WHILE THEIR STILL ALIVE AND BREATHING! So, do both of us a favor and visit peta2.com. Trust me, your gonna love it!
I would say, "Do you know the number one cause of death of humans?"
They'd reply, "nope."
So I'd be like, "Eating animal carcass is what causes heart disease, and heart disease is the number one killer. So before you bite a into that hamburger, listen to your heart. Do you really want to risk it?"
I know that you picture a farm animal as some cow, chicken, pig, etc.. loved by the farmer and his family and one day when its old they will numb that little creature give it hugs and kisses and then do what they must to put it there on your plates. Well actually no, the meat that you eat is actually part of some creature that can see, hear, make friends, have their hearts and will broken, also he/she can feel and recognize pain the same way you or you friends and family do. They did not ask or have a choice to be stolen and seperated from thier families, be beaten, starved and suffocated, whatch their friends go crazy or whatch thier mothers, fathers, even sibblings have their throats slit open. Why are you putting innocent animals through unnecessary tourture so that corporations can feed you unhealthy foods that are turning your body basically into a grave yard for innocent souls. Please just stop, look at your food, did it once have a heart and a mind, did it hear its friend say goodbye or its mother say I love you close your eyes and then here her cry of agonoy before death? Really is what your about to taste worth letting children around the world starve. Want to make a difference, end world hunger, save lives, stop the enviromental crisis, and end factory farming along with a risk of you developing heart disease. DON'T EAT MEAT! Try tofu, because tofu has never screamed.
I would tell them that animals even fish feel pain the same way we do. I would tell them to imagine someone slowly and painfully killing them and someone torturing them like the animals at slaughter are. I would ask them how do they think they would feel if someone killed them just so they could eat them.
Even animals have lives. When you eat an animal, you take or support the taking of lives. Souls are being lost for your enjoyment. Imagine the thousand of little souls leaving the earth everyday. There are other things to eat. Meat is only one of the many different healthy food groups we have. If you can't completely rid yourself of the lives you just can't seem to get enough of, then there of faux meats. It's so easy to go meatless and no one was hurt when thoses "meats" were made. And between you and me, they're alot healthier. So next time you go to a deli or someting, think about the mother who's baby you're eating or about the baby who will grow up without the mother you're eating, grow up without any love, just to be eaten up. Think about it.
Perhaps, in the earlier years when an animal was treated with respect, and not stocked full of hormones it was decent to eat. But, remember now what you're eating is mostly a mix of chemicals and fat. Now I know you don't want to be fat right? Human's have changed since those long gone caveman ways and we no longer have the means in our physical composition to correctly digest meat, it just kind of rots in your intestines. Well, that's cause we don't have the right acid in our salvia and fluids to break it down, you know the kind of stuff that all those carnivores and omnivores in the wild have? Not to mention that if factory farms didn't exist I doubt we'd have the ability to catch the meat. I don't see people walking around with claws, amazing speed and strength, do you? This isn't even considering the ethical factor in the decision to eat meat! I mean, mentally eating a pig is worse then eating your dog! So can we serve your dog? Yeah.. I thought not. These animals are put in horrific conditions, abused both physically and mentally. Plus without the proper care who knows what dieses they could be carrying? Oh well, into your burger those invested cows go! Yum, I'll have infected wounds with a side of relish please. Although we eat those wounds the poor animals have to live with them! Now I know that wouldn't go down okay if it was you or me, or even our pets. Chickens have their beaks cut off, and are usually so full of growth inducing chemicals that their legs break under the weight. Not that the people looking after them care.. or anything. So just think twice before you decide to eat rotting, decomposing flesh okay? I'll help you avoid that if you want! Thanks ! :)
Perhaps, in the earlier years when an animal was treated with respect, and not stocked full of hormones it was decent to eat. But, remember now what you're eating is mostly a mix of chemicals and fat. Now I know you don't want to be fat right? Human's have changed since those long gone caveman ways and we no longer have the means in our physical composition to correctly digest meat, it just kind of rots in your intestines. Well, that's cause we don't have the right acid in our salvia and fluids to break it down, you know the kind of stuff that all those carnivores and omnivores in the wild have? Not to mention that if factory farms didn't exist I doubt we'd have the ability to catch the meat. I don't see people walking around with claws, amazing speed and strength, do you? This isn't even considering the ethical factor in the decision to eat meat! I mean, mentally eating a pig is worse then eating your dog! So can we serve your dog? Yeah.. I thought not. These animals are put in horrific conditions, abused both physically and mentally. Plus without the proper care who knows what dieses they could be carrying? Oh well, into your burger those invested cows go! Yum, I'll have infected wounds with a side of relish please. Although we eat those wounds the poor animals have to live with them! Now I know that wouldn't go down okay if it was you or me, or even our pets. Chickens have their beaks cut off, and are usually so full of growth inducing chemicals that their legs break under the weight. Not that the people looking after them care.. or anything. So just think twice before you decide to eat rotting, decomposing flesh okay? I'll help you avoid that if you want! Thanks ! :)
i usually point out that they are dining on the muscle of dead animals. that its the same thing that makes up their bodies, and they're eating it. it seriously gives me the willies thinking about it.
I Told My Friends About The Video "Meet Your Meat". I Described It In Great Deal ... And They Were Almost Crying :(. I Told Them They Should Watch It, And Maybe They'd Reconsider Being Vegetarian ... They Said They Wouldn't, Because What i Told Them Was Enough.
"You seem fairly smart, but I can't help but be sceptical of any mental worth you'd have if you rely on such a primitive source of nourishment. You don't get what I mean?
Cavemen and early humans ate meat because they knew what they saw wild animals doing kept the animals alive. We've come far enough in society to be fining curs for diseases, we've gone to space, we've made almost every other advance plausible to show how much society has evolved, but by eating meat, we degrade ourselves back to wearing loincloths and sleeping with our cousins."
I would say like i have said to many of my friends. "You know that might have been a baby animal that you killed for a burger,Oh well how does that make you feel that you killed an innocent animal."
I would say that animals are put on this earth by some greater power for a reason, and that reason is NOT for us to eat them. On a biblical perspective, God says that the lion and the lamb, the child and the viper will all be together without harm coming to either of them. On a completely different note, many animals suffer greatly just to be put in hamburger or chicken nugget when there are so many great alternatives out there. And it's not hard to go vegetarian. Most restaurants and fast food chains now offer veggie burgers and other vegan/vegetarian options. So do it now!!! You'll feel better and look great!
Just THINK what you are really eating....and where it came from...I think most people don't really know where there food really comes from....once you know...you just cant eat it!!
What a great book...can't wait to read it!!
To my friends what I would say is people who really don't know what they are about to eat is a bad decision. They think the animals just die down on a farm and then get shipped off to a butcher, Well I'm sorry to say that's not even the way it goes. Those poor animals don't even get to live on a farm as I would say. They get live in cramped conditions, dirty places, and they are fed horrible food without any nutrients. Half of the veteranarians that find them or buy them at auctions to save them often find the poor animals underweight and brutally scarred or near death. People what you are eating isn't a good decision its wrong, those animals are helpless and if we got treated the same way they did I think we would go back and change our mind about this decision. This is why slaughterhouses don't have glass walls, they don't want our children in the community how the animals are treated or how that meat is made. Kids just think its a simple process but really its torture to anyone who really cares about this issue. So please my friends become a vegetarian, it will lead to a healthier lifestyle and a way better enviroment with more animals there to keep us company. meat is not the answer for anything.
Thank you.
Then why a cow, chicken or pig? They all feel pain have emotions and thoughts. Pigs are actually smarter than dogs and make just as great pets. What's the difference between these barnyard animals and your pets?
I would not be rude,insulting, hurtful, or uneducated in my way of saying that being a vegetarian is by far a better lifestyle to choose. Not only for you but for the animals too. As myself once was a meat eater. I made the choice for myself to become a vegetarian and would hope someone else would too. Not because of pressure or guilt but for the very reason that its... well its just the right thing to do. Once you step into the shoes or "hooves" of these animals i would be appalled if you thought anything other than instantly putting down that piece of bacon in your hand. These are not just mere things to be abused, used, and gobbled up at Sunday nights feast. We are talking about animals with beating hearts who love, feel, breathe just as we do. I believe no person can look into the eyes of an animal and honestly feel good about ending their life and later eating them, and if you can then i feel sorry for you. You have not only been blinded by the media and corporations that tell you its a-okay to eat another living thing but you have lost sight of what it is to live, to feel the ground beneath your feet and wind by your side just because animals can't speak does not mean they don't feel. If you can teach a dog right from wrong you would expect a human to be able to distinguish between the two. Have you learned nothing?
"Please visit the Peta2 website to follow the 'Liberation' link. If you would, watch the videos, read the text, and really take it all in. It's what made me really focus on exploring vegetarianism for myself."
Well as soon as I see someone eating meat i ask, "oh hows that FLESH?" they usually respond back with something witty and mean. But if they look confused or a look like they're asking for more, I tell them this; "Back in the day people needed to eat animals to survive, but this is REAL TIME and we have technologies and yummy food! We don't NEED meat anymore! I've suvived for almost five years not eating it and I'm alive. Also, people aren't MEANT to eat meat! Compare our teeth to those carnivorous animals, THEY'RE DIFFERENT! All I'm saying is that before you take a second bite of that hamburger, THINK of the cow. I was probably slaughtered alive and you're just sitting there eating a creature. Would you want to be eaten or killed alive?"
I know it's alot. But that's only the half of my rant.
I respect people in their choices, but I think it's wrong and let my voice be heard, because the animals' voices won't.
I would tell them that not only is it healthier to eat vegetarian...it's cheaper! In today's economy when everyone is trying to save money,it's an easy way to cut costs!
I usually say,
"You realize you're eating a dead carcass, right?"
I'm excited to read this book, I've been hearing a lot of positive reviews about it. :) Hope I win.
Posted by: Mira Torres | November 5, 2009 6:43 PM
Animals today bred to be eaten are routinely abused. Chickens have their beaks sliced off and the male baby chicks are literally thrown into a grinder cause in the egg laying industry they are of no use. Pigs have their ears, teeth and are castrated when they are babies. Cows in both the beef and dairy industries are also severely mistreated. Baby cows are taken away from their mothers when they are extremely young and this causes both the mom and baby severe stress. Imagine a human mother having her infant taken away from her forever after she gave birth and was ready to be a mom.
Also human's anatomy seems to closely resemble herbivores instead of carinvores. We have long instestings (unlike carnivores) and when we eat meat it literally decays in our intestings cause harmful effects on our bodies. People who eat meat consume less fiber cause there is no fiber in meat products. We don't have the natural things carnivores have to hunt their food. Our teeth aren't sharp enough to tear off flesh, we have no claws, and we are an extremely slow speices (even chickens can outrun the fastest human). That being said can you imagine a person going up to a chicken and biting a chunk of flesh off it and saying how much they enjoyed it. I don't think so. We have to cook our food so it tastes and appears more appealing and also cause if we don't there are many diseases we could get. Think about it.
Posted by: Michael | November 5, 2009 8:16 PM
i would say, do you know whats going into your body? man you wouldn't believe. then I'd pull out my fact sheets and stuff that i got from peta and go on and on. it actually worked, i got some friends to think about becoming a vegetarian. :D
Posted by: Wendy | November 5, 2009 8:57 PM
i'd probably hand them this book & tell them to come talk to me about it when they were done.
Posted by: dia | November 5, 2009 10:29 PM
You have to know exactly what you're putting in your body. You owe it to your self, your cells, and your kids! Just remember how you feel every time you eat red meat, and I know how it feel having that meat in your system for 3 days!! I ate carne asada and cheese burgers 3 times a week, and I never felt satisfied.
Posted by: Walter Miranda | November 5, 2009 10:36 PM
I try to encourage people to look at what they eat from an ethical and utilitarian position, as this is what convinced me to go from vegetarian to vegan. By not eating meat you are reducing the suffering of animals and lessening the impact on the environment. I tell people about the statistics related to factory farming, and even show them videos of the cruelty. Often meat eaters can't stand to watch them, even though they are happy to support such a disgraceful industry. I also tell people about battery hens,and the suffering that those hens go through just so you can enjoy an omlette on Sunday morning. I debunk the diet myths that meat eaters constantly perpetuate - "But where will you get protein from!!" - and provide them with information on how fulfilling and fun a vegan diet is. I always cook vegan food for people, and make my friends vegan cupcakes, and they are always surprised when they love them!
This book looks great too. Reading Peter Singers "Animal Liberation" and "The Ethics of What We Eat", as well as doing much of my own research, is what convinced me. I think more people out there need to be convinced, or at least made aware of the truth of where their food comes from.
Cheers, Rachel
Posted by: Rachel | November 5, 2009 10:48 PM
"You realize that by eating animals your not saving the earth, beside you really don't know what you eating and what goes on in factory farming.What goes on is just heart breaking and I don't know why you would want animals to suffer. So please, do the animals a favor and stop eating meat, because animals are people too."
Posted by: Gaby arenas | November 5, 2009 10:53 PM
Our mothers love us
We love our Mothers
Chickens love their chicks
Chicks love their mothers
Cows love their calves
Calves love their mothers
Pigs love their piglets
Piglets love their mothers
They don't eat our babies
Why eat their babies
Posted by: wendy | November 6, 2009 12:50 AM
"How would you like it if something ate your baby?"
Posted by: amy | November 6, 2009 1:47 AM
I'd tell someone:
Hey! You know how your always complaining about your jeans not fitting? Will go Vegetarian, you don't need all of that unncessary meat!! Besides, you do know what they do to all the animals right? They, SLAUGHTER THEM WHILE THEIR STILL ALIVE AND BREATHING! So, do both of us a favor and visit peta2.com. Trust me, your gonna love it!
Posted by: Keomba McNeely | November 6, 2009 6:54 AM
I would say, "Do you know the number one cause of death of humans?"
They'd reply, "nope."
So I'd be like, "Eating animal carcass is what causes heart disease, and heart disease is the number one killer. So before you bite a into that hamburger, listen to your heart. Do you really want to risk it?"
Posted by: Jessica | November 6, 2009 7:49 AM
How could you eat those adorable animals?
I mean come on, would you eat your puppy, or kitty?
Posted by: Heather | November 6, 2009 9:57 AM
I know that you picture a farm animal as some cow, chicken, pig, etc.. loved by the farmer and his family and one day when its old they will numb that little creature give it hugs and kisses and then do what they must to put it there on your plates. Well actually no, the meat that you eat is actually part of some creature that can see, hear, make friends, have their hearts and will broken, also he/she can feel and recognize pain the same way you or you friends and family do. They did not ask or have a choice to be stolen and seperated from thier families, be beaten, starved and suffocated, whatch their friends go crazy or whatch thier mothers, fathers, even sibblings have their throats slit open. Why are you putting innocent animals through unnecessary tourture so that corporations can feed you unhealthy foods that are turning your body basically into a grave yard for innocent souls. Please just stop, look at your food, did it once have a heart and a mind, did it hear its friend say goodbye or its mother say I love you close your eyes and then here her cry of agonoy before death? Really is what your about to taste worth letting children around the world starve. Want to make a difference, end world hunger, save lives, stop the enviromental crisis, and end factory farming along with a risk of you developing heart disease. DON'T EAT MEAT! Try tofu, because tofu has never screamed.
Posted by: Sarah Browning | November 6, 2009 4:44 PM
I would tell them that animals even fish feel pain the same way we do. I would tell them to imagine someone slowly and painfully killing them and someone torturing them like the animals at slaughter are. I would ask them how do they think they would feel if someone killed them just so they could eat them.
Posted by: David Conner | November 6, 2009 5:22 PM
Even animals have lives. When you eat an animal, you take or support the taking of lives. Souls are being lost for your enjoyment. Imagine the thousand of little souls leaving the earth everyday. There are other things to eat. Meat is only one of the many different healthy food groups we have. If you can't completely rid yourself of the lives you just can't seem to get enough of, then there of faux meats. It's so easy to go meatless and no one was hurt when thoses "meats" were made. And between you and me, they're alot healthier. So next time you go to a deli or someting, think about the mother who's baby you're eating or about the baby who will grow up without the mother you're eating, grow up without any love, just to be eaten up. Think about it.
Posted by: Marissa Peplinski | November 6, 2009 5:25 PM
Just think of all the animals lives you could save by being a vegetarian...plus meat-free meals give you lots of good karma!
Posted by: Lena | November 6, 2009 6:16 PM
"You do realize you're eating someones baby, right? Would you be alright with that animal eating you're baby?...Didn't think so!"
Posted by: ellie | November 6, 2009 6:43 PM
Perhaps, in the earlier years when an animal was treated with respect, and not stocked full of hormones it was decent to eat. But, remember now what you're eating is mostly a mix of chemicals and fat. Now I know you don't want to be fat right? Human's have changed since those long gone caveman ways and we no longer have the means in our physical composition to correctly digest meat, it just kind of rots in your intestines. Well, that's cause we don't have the right acid in our salvia and fluids to break it down, you know the kind of stuff that all those carnivores and omnivores in the wild have? Not to mention that if factory farms didn't exist I doubt we'd have the ability to catch the meat. I don't see people walking around with claws, amazing speed and strength, do you? This isn't even considering the ethical factor in the decision to eat meat! I mean, mentally eating a pig is worse then eating your dog! So can we serve your dog? Yeah.. I thought not. These animals are put in horrific conditions, abused both physically and mentally. Plus without the proper care who knows what dieses they could be carrying? Oh well, into your burger those invested cows go! Yum, I'll have infected wounds with a side of relish please. Although we eat those wounds the poor animals have to live with them! Now I know that wouldn't go down okay if it was you or me, or even our pets. Chickens have their beaks cut off, and are usually so full of growth inducing chemicals that their legs break under the weight. Not that the people looking after them care.. or anything. So just think twice before you decide to eat rotting, decomposing flesh okay? I'll help you avoid that if you want! Thanks ! :)
ps. I REALLY WANT THIS BOOK ! ;) ahaha
Posted by: Anonymous | November 6, 2009 7:07 PM
Perhaps, in the earlier years when an animal was treated with respect, and not stocked full of hormones it was decent to eat. But, remember now what you're eating is mostly a mix of chemicals and fat. Now I know you don't want to be fat right? Human's have changed since those long gone caveman ways and we no longer have the means in our physical composition to correctly digest meat, it just kind of rots in your intestines. Well, that's cause we don't have the right acid in our salvia and fluids to break it down, you know the kind of stuff that all those carnivores and omnivores in the wild have? Not to mention that if factory farms didn't exist I doubt we'd have the ability to catch the meat. I don't see people walking around with claws, amazing speed and strength, do you? This isn't even considering the ethical factor in the decision to eat meat! I mean, mentally eating a pig is worse then eating your dog! So can we serve your dog? Yeah.. I thought not. These animals are put in horrific conditions, abused both physically and mentally. Plus without the proper care who knows what dieses they could be carrying? Oh well, into your burger those invested cows go! Yum, I'll have infected wounds with a side of relish please. Although we eat those wounds the poor animals have to live with them! Now I know that wouldn't go down okay if it was you or me, or even our pets. Chickens have their beaks cut off, and are usually so full of growth inducing chemicals that their legs break under the weight. Not that the people looking after them care.. or anything. So just think twice before you decide to eat rotting, decomposing flesh okay? I'll help you avoid that if you want! Thanks ! :)
ps. I REALLY WANT THIS BOOK ! ;) ahaha
Posted by: raach | November 6, 2009 7:33 PM
i usually point out that they are dining on the muscle of dead animals. that its the same thing that makes up their bodies, and they're eating it. it seriously gives me the willies thinking about it.
Posted by: kaylee | November 6, 2009 9:21 PM
There is one thing I have to say, How could you eat such disgusting food where you probably don't know where is manufactured from?
Posted by: Lauren | November 7, 2009 12:28 PM
Oh, a dead, diseased, tortured carcass, YUM! I'm sure that cruelty tastes... good?
Then I give them facts on the meat plants and mcCruelty, etc.
Posted by: Gordon | November 7, 2009 4:08 PM
I Told My Friends About The Video "Meet Your Meat". I Described It In Great Deal ... And They Were Almost Crying :(. I Told Them They Should Watch It, And Maybe They'd Reconsider Being Vegetarian ... They Said They Wouldn't, Because What i Told Them Was Enough.
Posted by: Jessica | November 7, 2009 6:10 PM
"You seem fairly smart, but I can't help but be sceptical of any mental worth you'd have if you rely on such a primitive source of nourishment. You don't get what I mean?
Cavemen and early humans ate meat because they knew what they saw wild animals doing kept the animals alive. We've come far enough in society to be fining curs for diseases, we've gone to space, we've made almost every other advance plausible to show how much society has evolved, but by eating meat, we degrade ourselves back to wearing loincloths and sleeping with our cousins."
Posted by: fiona | November 7, 2009 7:56 PM
To stop someone from eating meat I would say:
"Do you love animals? Yes, then why do you eat them? You don't eat someone you love!"
I want to win this as a gift for someone I know who swops between being vegetarian, thinking about veganism and eating meat from time to time.
Posted by: Little_Lotte | November 8, 2009 10:55 AM
I would say like i have said to many of my friends. "You know that might have been a baby animal that you killed for a burger,Oh well how does that make you feel that you killed an innocent animal."
Posted by: Morgan Turner | November 8, 2009 7:25 PM
I would say that animals are put on this earth by some greater power for a reason, and that reason is NOT for us to eat them. On a biblical perspective, God says that the lion and the lamb, the child and the viper will all be together without harm coming to either of them. On a completely different note, many animals suffer greatly just to be put in hamburger or chicken nugget when there are so many great alternatives out there. And it's not hard to go vegetarian. Most restaurants and fast food chains now offer veggie burgers and other vegan/vegetarian options. So do it now!!! You'll feel better and look great!
Posted by: bandchicky314 | November 9, 2009 7:03 AM
Just THINK what you are really eating....and where it came from...I think most people don't really know where there food really comes from....once you know...you just cant eat it!!
What a great book...can't wait to read it!!
Posted by: Kathy Duffield | November 9, 2009 9:05 AM
If that animal could speak your language, I'm sure they'd ask you to please not eat them today.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 9, 2009 1:39 PM
To my friends what I would say is people who really don't know what they are about to eat is a bad decision. They think the animals just die down on a farm and then get shipped off to a butcher, Well I'm sorry to say that's not even the way it goes. Those poor animals don't even get to live on a farm as I would say. They get live in cramped conditions, dirty places, and they are fed horrible food without any nutrients. Half of the veteranarians that find them or buy them at auctions to save them often find the poor animals underweight and brutally scarred or near death. People what you are eating isn't a good decision its wrong, those animals are helpless and if we got treated the same way they did I think we would go back and change our mind about this decision. This is why slaughterhouses don't have glass walls, they don't want our children in the community how the animals are treated or how that meat is made. Kids just think its a simple process but really its torture to anyone who really cares about this issue. So please my friends become a vegetarian, it will lead to a healthier lifestyle and a way better enviroment with more animals there to keep us company. meat is not the answer for anything.
Thank you.
Posted by: Shawn Buchanan | November 9, 2009 2:46 PM
Do you eat your friends?
No?
Well, you just so happen to be eating mine..
please stop.
How would you like it if I ate your friends?
Posted by: Kim Evans | November 9, 2009 6:47 PM
I think I might like this book.
Posted by: Chrystal K. | November 9, 2009 6:50 PM
Would you ever eat a dog or a cat?
No
Then why a cow, chicken or pig? They all feel pain have emotions and thoughts. Pigs are actually smarter than dogs and make just as great pets. What's the difference between these barnyard animals and your pets?
...idrk...
Posted by: Veggal | November 9, 2009 7:03 PM
I would not be rude,insulting, hurtful, or uneducated in my way of saying that being a vegetarian is by far a better lifestyle to choose. Not only for you but for the animals too. As myself once was a meat eater. I made the choice for myself to become a vegetarian and would hope someone else would too. Not because of pressure or guilt but for the very reason that its... well its just the right thing to do. Once you step into the shoes or "hooves" of these animals i would be appalled if you thought anything other than instantly putting down that piece of bacon in your hand. These are not just mere things to be abused, used, and gobbled up at Sunday nights feast. We are talking about animals with beating hearts who love, feel, breathe just as we do. I believe no person can look into the eyes of an animal and honestly feel good about ending their life and later eating them, and if you can then i feel sorry for you. You have not only been blinded by the media and corporations that tell you its a-okay to eat another living thing but you have lost sight of what it is to live, to feel the ground beneath your feet and wind by your side just because animals can't speak does not mean they don't feel. If you can teach a dog right from wrong you would expect a human to be able to distinguish between the two. Have you learned nothing?
Posted by: Jordan | November 9, 2009 8:12 PM
"Please visit the Peta2 website to follow the 'Liberation' link. If you would, watch the videos, read the text, and really take it all in. It's what made me really focus on exploring vegetarianism for myself."
http://www.peta2.com/ALP/
I only just joined on Sunday, and I'm excited to have started making a difference for those that can't do for themselves. Animals deserve rights
Posted by: McGee | November 10, 2009 5:42 AM
Well as soon as I see someone eating meat i ask, "oh hows that FLESH?" they usually respond back with something witty and mean. But if they look confused or a look like they're asking for more, I tell them this; "Back in the day people needed to eat animals to survive, but this is REAL TIME and we have technologies and yummy food! We don't NEED meat anymore! I've suvived for almost five years not eating it and I'm alive. Also, people aren't MEANT to eat meat! Compare our teeth to those carnivorous animals, THEY'RE DIFFERENT! All I'm saying is that before you take a second bite of that hamburger, THINK of the cow. I was probably slaughtered alive and you're just sitting there eating a creature. Would you want to be eaten or killed alive?"
I know it's alot. But that's only the half of my rant.
I respect people in their choices, but I think it's wrong and let my voice be heard, because the animals' voices won't.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 12, 2009 10:21 AM
I call meat what it really is. I don't say beef or pork. I say cow or pig.
Posted by: Susan C | November 12, 2009 7:46 PM
I'd say that animals are too cute to eat.
Posted by: Erma | November 18, 2009 7:05 AM
It sounds like a great book, thanks for the chance to win it!
Posted by: Daniel Bates | November 18, 2009 9:16 AM
i would convince them of what happens at the slaughter houses and how dirty the process of making meat really is
Posted by: Lance Pearson | November 18, 2009 2:40 PM
Choose not to eat anything with a face.
Posted by: Ed Nemmers | November 18, 2009 5:04 PM
I would tell them that not only is it healthier to eat vegetarian...it's cheaper! In today's economy when everyone is trying to save money,it's an easy way to cut costs!
Posted by: karen pepin | November 18, 2009 9:20 PM
i would tell them to stop eating meat, it's murder!
Posted by: susan smoaks | November 19, 2009 9:52 AM