Long story short, I've been a vegetarian on and off since I realized as a kid that meat comes from animals and that they have to die for it. However, it is very hard to overcome a lifetime of eating habits, and my family dinner table always had a roast, or a chicken, or pork chops, or meatloaf - you get the picture.
I've come a very long way just these past few months, starting the day that I started reading about the SHAC7 and HLS. I watched that video of those bastards torturing beagle puppies, and I wish I hadn't, because it's been the most painful change of all - I cried for two days over that. It really did bring me to the brink - what kind of world are we in, if there are enough sociopaths to staff a place like that?
I have a 2 year old beagle that I love like he was my own child. He's very attached to me, he thinks I'm God's gift to beagles. The video, while I still love my doggie very much, changed the way I look at him; the way I feel about him - now my love for him is tainted with such sadness that sometimes I still cry over it.
What has happened is that my blinders were ripped off - and it hurts. I don't want to be the cause, directly or indirectly as a consumer, of any more horror - so I won't eat meat, and I won't buy products that use animal testing. I can't go back to how I was before. I can't ignore the fact that animals suffer horrible pain and fear at OUR HANDS.
Hope I find some kindred spirits here - I found you through Google (gotta love Google).
I've come a very long way just these past few months, starting the day that I started reading about the SHAC7 and HLS. I watched that video of those bastards torturing beagle puppies, and I wish I hadn't, because it's been the most painful change of all - I cried for two days over that. It really did bring me to the brink - what kind of world are we in, if there are enough sociopaths to staff a place like that?
I have a 2 year old beagle that I love like he was my own child. He's very attached to me, he thinks I'm God's gift to beagles. The video, while I still love my doggie very much, changed the way I look at him; the way I feel about him - now my love for him is tainted with such sadness that sometimes I still cry over it.
What has happened is that my blinders were ripped off - and it hurts. I don't want to be the cause, directly or indirectly as a consumer, of any more horror - so I won't eat meat, and I won't buy products that use animal testing. I can't go back to how I was before. I can't ignore the fact that animals suffer horrible pain and fear at OUR HANDS.
Hope I find some kindred spirits here - I found you through Google (gotta love Google).
