happy cows frolicking. (not.)

[aamcnamara]

There is no possible way I could be vegetarian. Not ever. Certainly not at college.

But I realized yesterday--(yes, it took me a while)--that I am not eating happy animals here. Which made me really sad. I am still dwelling on this, even though I know there is no way I can eat vegetarian and not be unhealthy.

See, I am okay with the idea of people eating animals. I am even okay with raising animals to be eaten. I am much less okay with raising animals inhumanely (and how weird is it that "inhumane" is our word for that concept?) to be eaten. If you are going to not care about them, not care about people, not care about the planet, it just doesn't make sense.

Gah.

Comments

[aliseadae]

Yeah. College food just feels icky in general. It all comes in such large boxes and I'm sure the places that make it are horrible and I miss fresh vegetables and fruits and things bought locally.

[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

Mostly I think we do okay with food. Like, okay, all college food is sort of sketchy. But once in a while they do a local-food thing (we had a week of Local Apples which was really nice), and we always have fair trade coffee, and stuff.

But not free-range meat or anything yet. Maybe it just wants a petition. Someone must have started the fair trade coffee thing, after all.

[aliseadae]

Yah, your college does better than mine. We have apple day where there are local apples. That is once a year and we all look forward to it. I don't think we have fair trade coffee or fair trade anything or anything local. Bleh.