So I've always avoided the whole PETA scene. I love steak, chicken, fish, eggs....you name it. But I've been reading a book called The Food Revolution, and it's talking about stuff that scares the shit out of me. I seriously can't go on eating certain meats.
I'm reading about how companies producing eggs will starve the chickens for 10-14 days, deprive them of water for 3 days at a time, just to force a laying cycle in the chickens that survive. How up to 10% of cows aren't properly stunned before they're skinned/gutted alive. How eating a pound of beef is the equivalent of wasting 2500-5400 gallons of water (for grain irrigation costs). How small the cages are that these animals spend their entire lives in. Baby cows raised in filth, deprived of everything, just to produce veal. It's repulsive.
I can't be an environmentalist/animal-lover and continue eating meat. I just can't!! I mean, if I knew the animals were being killed humanely, I might still continue. But it's seriously insane what these industries have turned into just to provide millions of people with their meat quota.
So from now on, I'm completely staying away from beef and chicken and pork. I'm buying all of my eggs cage-free (if the label says 'free range,' that doesn't mean anything).
Anyone else out there feel this way? Vegetarians? Vegans?



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