I finally decided to quit eating animals, meaning I turned into a vegetarian. The idea of changing my lifestyle has been around for actually quite a while but I could never find the time to really stop, think about it and act, I just felt the time wasn’t right.
Last weekend I watched several movies, as usual, and among them two very particular ones: “Fast Food Nation” and “Earthlings” which is more of a documentary film and I really recommend everybody to watch this films.
We always hear stories about how animals are treated but you don’t realize what’s going on until you see it.
When I was done with them I felt like being human was definitely the worst thing in the world but, at the same time, if I was an animal I would have been killed already. So what’s the point of life?
Over centuries we have evolved and certainly not for good. We have evolved to kill, to destroy, to manipulate, to not respect our fellow “earthlings” and just treat them as “things”, material that must be used and disposed after we have satisfied our -so called- needs.
Every week there are about 17 million chicken executed in the US only and if you go to a restaurant and order chicken they will certainly bring you a plate filled with more chicken than you could possibly eat. The rest is thrown away. Should we call that a “need”?
Everyday about 19000 animals (almost 7 million per year) are killed in tests. Cats, dogs, pigs, monkeys, almost every animal you could think of and yet again I ask: Should we call that a “need”?
