Why I am a Vegan

[Jade]

I think the meat was hiding the very deep down catalysts locked up inside me.

I think this is accurate. I think that the fact that many people eat meat without any thought just shows how well society can brain wash people. I believe that, if given a choice at a young age to choose a diet, that most little children would choose to not eat slaughtered baby animals. There are countless youtube videos of distressed children who cannot understand why their parent is butchering something that could have been their friend.

The fact that we are removed from the slaughter of animals makes it easy to ignore the atrocities that are committed to millions of animals every single day. I actually found a vegan activist group in Denver that bears witness at a slaughterhouse - where they bring in 1400 lambs a day to be slaughtered. We gather as a group and sing songs and offer comfort to the lambs, as we can watch them be unloaded and head right up the conveyor belt into the slaughter room. It's really hard but since we're bragging here in the vegan thread, I actually feel like this is a huge calling for me and it's some of the most fulfilling service I've ever done, and meeting so many other vegans who also feel that this is a worthy service has been significantly life changing for me.

So, good job, sjel. Thanks for trying. I know it's so, so hard, I truly do. But I see so many people change too when they quit eating meat - many people do it primarily for their health (me) and then as they are able to break free of the meat matrix, they realize what a horrible system we were participating in unconsciously. This is why vegans are usually so emotional - all those emotions that were denied so long for pleasure come bursting out, when one is willing to acknowledge what a systemically destructive habit eating meat with any regularity is.