In regards to eating meat

[@ndy]

Yeah the meat-eaters have to put up with the occasional obnoxious vegan, but no matter how you slice it, vegetarians have it much worse because we are the minority, and we have to put up with not only the occasional obnoxious 'John' but watching people contribute to the cruelty, on a daily basis. Every single day, we have to face all the McDonald's and steakhouses as we drive around town, we have to watch our families, co-workers and friends cut up and eat our other friends, and we have to keep our mouths shut. We can't isolate ourselves. So we have to just swallow it, every single day, all day long.

On top of that, we have to ignore all those billboards with the cutesy cows and pigs, advertising cooked cows and pigs. We have to put aside the burden of pain we feel when we drive past a feedlot or a truck full of pigs on their way to the slaughter, which we see alot here in Texas. We have to walk past the body parts in the grocery store, displayed there like a bizarre horror movie morgue. We have to smile politely when the lady in line next to us at the grocery store piles her bloody animal body parts right next to our tomatoes. We have to try to avoid the wet spots.

I think, overall, vegetarians do pretty damn well. Considering how we feel about cruelty to animals, we bite our tongues most of the time. We're not allowed to say what we really feel. We must harden our hearts, toughen our natural feelings of compassion, and suppress our true feelings, in an ironic forced denial, just to exist on this planet. We have to swallow our convictions. We should get some credit for that.

If occasionally we allow ourselves to let our guard down, and forget to turn the suppressors online, well, please cut us a little slack.

Not that I am judging them--they are judging themselves, possibly

Precisely.

I feel for that. Really I do I'm sorry it causes you pain.

I live with a veggy, he's 48, he's been veggy since he was 16 so 32 years.
Of late he's been saying to me.... I wish I could eat meat without feeling like Satan.
What stops him eating meat is 'guilt' - I think that's sad.
Another veggy friend I have a Christian in her late 30's.... she's also been veggy all her life.
She has an overwhelming earge to eat meat.... so much so that she's helping another friend care for there pigs on there small holding so she can 'justifie' eating mean again.

I find it sad that people don't eat meat out of guilt.
HAsn't earth evolved threw a cycle of death decay and consumption? I find it natural.

(( sorry for the spelling, I'm dyslexic and have no spell check on ipad))