How The Hell Are Ya

[Kady]

Hi. I'm Kady.. I'm new. I'm also a new vegetarian. I've been meat free for over 4 months.
I became a vegetarian after seeing the movie Baraka; I don't know how familiar it is. Well there is this scene.. a very real scene, where thousands of baby chicks are passed along a convair belt just to have their beaks burned down then tossed into cages to spend their lives making eggs. Watching these chicks.. these babies in my eyes go through all of that was horrifyng for me.
So I E-Mailed PETA and asked them to send me any information about these chick farms that they could. Well PETA sent me a letter.. more like a package! Containing information, CDs, Government letters about all kinds of animal suffering/cruelity. From chicks and chickens to calves and cows and horses, even fish.
From that package on I've been meat free. Cut it out of my diet..
I went cold turkey*

[maygirlJune]

That's sorta how it happened for me too, back in september of this year.I saw a commercial by Alicia Silverstone - and it linked to a goveg.com which had a video of the torture that is done to animals. I couldn't believe it. It was a 3 min video of which I could only withstand 30 seconds of it before breaking down into hysterics. Those images are burned into my brain now, and I cannot knowingly eat meat anymore. I also know how Dairy cows and chicks are tortured for milk and eggs and such, and I'm trying to slowly transition to Vegan, which I think will take awhile, since those products are in nearly everything. Also - the animal testing that happens, I hate it, and I hate how hard it is to find products in stores nearby that sell non-animal tested products.

However i feel good knowing that I can make a change, how ever slight it may be, it's still a change and every little bit counts.

Slowly trying to get my man onto a vegetarian diet, without being a stereotypical super pushy vegetarian.

[Kady]

I cannot watch those videos at all. More so for the fact that I know that there are people/worker/scientists that are the cause of it. They arent in the video but they are somewhere and they know whats going on if they're not the ones who are doing it! And I believe that a person who is cruel to animals is also cruel to creatures other then animals; to their family, friends, children, stangers!
But I had the same hard time finding safe food to eat. Its not easy on the East Coast.

Good luck with your guy! I can't imagine that to be easy at all.