has anyone else ever stood in a supermarket,or large food store and wondered just how many animals have been slaughtered to make all these food products.does anybody else have weird thoughts like this?All the tinned products ,frozen stuff,animal fats and oils,make up etc,no I am not a vegetarian,just a deep thinker
2006-10-25 23:15:53 · 15 answers · asked by dumplingmuffin 7 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
no i didnt mean the meat part of it i meant all the tinned stuff and just how many things were involved in it all like food colorings
2006-10-25 23:24:07 · update #1
For kicks, check out the book "Animal Ingredients A-Z" and then go to the grocery store.
It'll blow your mind how much animal products are truly used for consumption.
Being vegan is a big change, but not as difficult as one might think. In any case, it's very admirable that you're thinking about what goes into what you consume. I think it's important to be conscious of what we do and where things that we consume originate from.
Thanks for thinking! :)
2006-10-26 11:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by Eve 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I stand in a giant supermarket and consider how empty the shelves would be if they removed all the stuff with trans fats (ok, since new regulations there are less), or sugar as the first ingredient. Think of how empty the cereal isles would be if they had an ethical sugar content threshold...If there were no animal products allowed over half of the shelves and the frozen foods sections would be empty. You are not the only one...
2006-10-26 09:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by Joyce T 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As a vegetarian, that is what I have to think about as I go through the grocery store. Jim Carrey's comment about the "Nice room of Death you got here" runs through my mind. If that is not bad enough, you then get flashbacks of PETA's Meet your Meat CD in your head where the cows are killed, skinned, and then marked with a marker and cut with a chainsaw.
I will say that if someone wants to go out barehanded and kill their own animal for a meal, and eat it raw, that I won't care about. But we won't do that. We only buy our meat already cut up and prettily displayed on a styrofoam board wrapped in clear plastic. Then we have to go and cook it with spices and salt to make it appealing and tasty to eat. When you look at a hamburger, you don't even think of a cow being killed and cut up into little bits.
Be careful thinking too deep, cause once you become vegetarian, then you can think deep about all the pesticides and herbicides they put on your vegetables for you to eat, or how pretty it looks but it is genetically modified to look good but not taste so good. So then you buy organic, and then you think deep about your water supply. How it is dwindling down, and all the other thoughts of how we make the planet so polluted.
When does it all stop?
2006-10-26 05:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by Dart 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1. Just becuase we have "been doin it 4 eva" is not excuse to continue the practice. People use to have human slaves, it went on for a long time, but we stopped doing that becuase it's wrong. You could apply the same logic to slaverly.
2. If you realise what you are doing, and eating, is causing horable suffering how can you continue to do it? People who understand the horror these animals must go though to provide humans with flesh for their table, are worse, in my opion, than the ignoant masses who never think about it.
Top preditor my a s s. Go hunt your food like a real perdator, bare handed.
2006-10-26 05:07:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a vegetarian but I also think about that. I could very easily be a vegetarian, I was talking to my hubby the other day, I was saying if we lived in the old days of prepare your own food, our family would have to be vegetarians and he asked why. I told him there is no way I could kill an animal and dress it, just no way. I feel like a real hypocrite eating meat. Maybe this wasn't exactly what you were wanting to hear but it was what went through my mind when I read your question. :-)
2006-10-25 23:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, we have and that's how many of us are veggie!!!! Before I became veggie I was getting vivid images of animals screaming in slaughter houses,pools of blood etc,etc on the floor. Then I'd go in to the supermarkets and see wrapped meat, bloody and lying in it's packages or lying lifless and chilled in a freezer!! I'd even look at brightly packaged Jelly (Jell-o) mixes and jelly sweets and think 'FFS people give this stuff to kids at parties and it is vile!!!!!'
2006-10-25 23:29:06 · answer #6 · answered by Andielep 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, i have. i eat 30 chicken wings thats 15 dead chickens. i have native american ancestry so i just thank the spirit of the animals for dying so that i may live. i tried being vegetarian for this very reason, but i became deathly i'll (hospitalized for the first time in my life) my body will not thrive without meat, so thats the way i deal with it. as long as you don't kill for pleasure, but only to live the great spirit understands.
2006-10-25 23:22:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i do it all the time
2006-10-26 08:57:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I;m not going to say you need meat to live... But this has been happening since the beginning of time. Cannibalism alone dates back to the beginning of time... It is in our nature do destroy ourselves.
2006-10-25 23:18:06 · answer #9 · answered by thaheartoflife 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes sometimes it makes you wonder, why this fits into our scheme of living, kinda gross, but this is the way the cookie crumbles.
2006-10-25 23:19:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋