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.

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[aamcnamara.livejournal.com]

I try to get organic/free range/etc. meats, too. Unfortunately, with the eating at college dining halls, I don't have much choice.

(I don't like pork much, or beef, so I don't eat those often in any case--I do eat poultry, and I do eat fish. I should probably look into conditions for poultry farms, since that's most of the meat I eat, but given the allergies and the college thing, it'd probably just make me even more sad to no particular point.)