CloudieGin Posted:

We all know what goes on in slaughterhouses. It’s not a pretty thing. But once you’ve actually seen it in detail — everything seems to change.

I saw some of the videos on ChooseVeg.com about investigations within places where livestock is processed into food. It was the most deeply emotionally damaging thing I had experienced since reading about the Holocaust.

I just can’t believe some of the hell that exists on our own planet. For humans, and in this case, beasts. My faith in humanity just sloped downward when I witnessed some of the cruelty that took place (and God forbid, could be going on as we speak). Like somebody had put it: When you see something like this, you lose that feeling of “Oh, everything is gonna be okay. Nothing that bad could ever happen”.

I cried, and had trouble sleeping that night.

So, getting to the point, I’m not a vegetarian. I enjoy eating meat. Sure, I try to cut down on meat intake, but I find a vegetarian diet might be more of a hbumle than I could deal with.

We’re having turkey for dinner, and I get sick when I look at it. I didn’t take any.

But this is what’s been going on in my head: Even if people stopped eating meat, how would that help put an end to the merciless, often illegal practices used on livestock? There would always be someone eating meat, wouldn’t there? And, if I do eat meat, does that necessarily mean that I support animal cruelty?

I wouldn’t want to eat something that could have been beaten and left to die slowly and excruciatingly. It seems insulting. But what am I supposed to do?

In short, I don’t think it’s bad to eat meat. But it’s unforgivable to practice such abominable torture on those poor creatures.

What do you think?

I’m sorry, but i don’t believe in middle ground. Either go Vegan, or eat meat.

They put tiny rubber rings on the calves’ testicles that tighten as it’s balls get bigger, eventually castrating it non-surgically.

I think it’s better to eat river fish than drink milk, but hey, that’s just me.