What?! >:O

From the title of this blog I'm sure you can assume one of the videos I had watched. Animal cruelty. Seriously?? That shit is just crazy. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't watch it till the end. I couldn't. I never understood why there were so many animal cruelty prevention groups and why there was so much surrounding animal cruelty. I only knew it as animal testing and mutilations because products were tested on animals. I never knew that the meat that shows up in my food came from these kind of places. Please tell me that there are better places to get the food and that this was only the worst place to get meat because i really can't go vegetarian. I have always thought about it but i never could bring myself to do it because of my large consumption of meat. If i were to become a vegetarian, I don't think my family would support me because they have always been worried about my health since i was young. My culture is also very meat centered. On special occasions such as birthdays or Chinese New Year, a chicken and roasted pig are placed on the table for praying so they can be blessed before we eat them. I highly doubt that having a blessing will take away the pain they went through to get on our dinner table. Is it better to get poultry from a small poultry place where the poultry is treated better? Because my mom and dad are always getting poultry from a live poultry place 10 minutes from our house. I feel that it is better because the animals are not tortured as in the video. The animals are not given the steroids to grow them. On the other hand I think it's just the same. A small poultry place had to have gotten their animals from somewhere. They are just the slaughter house of small proportions. This video had a great impact on me. I really got me thinking. I didn't like it. I feel as if I'm put into a tough position. I feel guilty that I eat meat and I don't feel as though I will stop.

Another video i watched was the Meatrix. This series of videos was similar to the animal cruelty video. I brought light to the watchers eye about what really goes on in the real world with meat. It is definitely not like the pastures on television where animals move and live freely. This video along with the animal cruelty video brought on a cruel truth. When I got upstate with my family, I can look out the window and see cows grazing in the grass and they seem to be enjoying themselves. I can also go down the road of the house where the neighbor has a small chicken pen and the chicken are always running freely across the lawn. I may be able to see these things as we go but i think about in the end, they die. They die for the benefit of humanity. When we go grocery shopping and we go to the meat section and I see all the meat packaged all nice and neatly, I don't think about the dirty dirty past that the meat went through to get into those shiny plastic containers. Speaking on the lines of nice and neat and free animals, there is this commercial on TV about happy cows in California producing healthy milk. They say that the best milk comes from happy cows in California. Real California Milk. What a fucking lie! I seen the part where the cows are impregnated every year and the calves are stripped from them the moment they're born because the workers need the damn milk for a profit. And after the cows have been used until they are no longer able to produce milk, they are auctioned for slaughter. And then there's that stupid Perdue commercial about healthy and happy chicken with no steroids, I'm not sure if i should even believe that anymore. The guy on TV may look nice but he could be just the same cold hearted killer as in the the videos. These corporate people know how to sell their shit and make it look like the best stuff on earth. That's fucking bullshit.

I also watched the Pollan vs. Colbert video. I didn't get much from that video, it was just informative on how the majority of food in the world is fake. Its all processed and that we should eat more "real" stuff. But does Pollan realize that the organic stuff sold in groceries and supermarkets are expensive and not everyone can afford it even if they did want to go healthy. With our economy anyone would be lucky and fairly well off to be able to eat organic foods all the time. Sure we can plant our own but who has time when every one's worried about their finances in this falling economy? Pollan is right to suggest that we should go more natural on our food habits but he has to keep in mind of the less fortunate people who must work hard to make their much needed money. They will hardly have to time to put proper nutrition into their bodies.