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I watch this video to help me be a vegetarian (Original Post) Beringia May 2019 OP
When I was 6 years old abqtommy May 2019 #1
I made my husband watch this. Duppers May 2019 #2
You're welcome Beringia May 2019 #3
You say vegetarian. Mendocino May 2019 #4
I'm working on it Beringia May 2019 #5
I gave up dairy Mendocino May 2019 #6
Bite Size Vegan Mendocino May 2019 #7
I would not be able to stand watching that CatLady78 Aug 2020 #8

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. When I was 6 years old
Tue May 7, 2019, 03:24 PM
May 2019

I toured a slaughterhouse in S. Dakota along with my Dad, one of his friends and his son who was my age. It was a sobering experience, not to the point of becoming vegan/vegetarian, but to awareness.

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
2. I made my husband watch this.
Thu May 23, 2019, 09:40 PM
May 2019

Sometimes shock is the only way to infuse empathy into some people.

So, thank you for posting this! 🙏



Mendocino

(7,480 posts)
4. You say vegetarian.
Sat May 25, 2019, 01:23 PM
May 2019

Can you take it a step further by becoming vegan? Even all diary cows will eventually be killed, like the animals in the video.

Beringia

(4,316 posts)
5. I'm working on it
Sat May 25, 2019, 01:29 PM
May 2019

I am kind of late to the party as far as veganism goes. But I am in the process. I fell off the wagon of vegetarianism too for a while, that is why I sought out videos to help me along. I know dairy cows are killed when they stop producing, male dairy cows are often killed as babies or sold as beef cattle, male baby chicks are pulverized.

Mendocino

(7,480 posts)
6. I gave up dairy
Sat May 25, 2019, 01:48 PM
May 2019

long ago, lactose problems with cheese and milk. The last flesh was fish. Gave up eggs last.

CatLady78

(1,041 posts)
8. I would not be able to stand watching that
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:52 AM
Aug 2020

But this is basically why I am vegetarian.
I became vegan in 2003 after watching "Meat is murder". Could not pull that off so became vegetarian w/o factory-farmed eggs in the mix. Fell off the wagon a few times but always came back and am there to stay. Will try the vegan route someday.

Human cruelty knows no bounds when pushback is less likely. It is true of the elderly, disabled, poor etc. and above all of farm animals. I am shocked at the sheer scale of cruelty this sub-set of life-forms endures sans any protections. It is absurdly illogical.

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