don't worry about it. human beings occasionally eat meat and dairy products as a supplement to a grain and vegetable-based diet. it's not a big deal.
In the beginning when I first went veggie I cheated on my diet too. Before I went plain organic lacto, i was organic lacto-ovo and ate a non organic cheese pizza. I ate the whole pizza. I felt so bad about it that I prayed to God and asked him to forgive me then recited a Buddhist chant about 3 times. Maybe I'm a little nuts But, we all make mistakes.
Hahaha.... It's happened to me as well. Then of course there's accidental consumption of dairy and eggs... but you can prevent that the majority of the time... I don't like to put my faith in many people cooking my food if it's a salad... and even then, I went to the cracker barrel in Burlington, NC once and had a salad and put italian (real) bacon dressing on it after I told them I wanted plain italian or just vinegar and oil... ugh...
Do most people become vegetarian because they don't want to harm not even one animal to eat them or do you believe meat is bad. I mean, milking cows doesn't kill them even though the way it is done now is mechanized and mean. Milk isn't hurting animals.
Actually. In order for cows to give milk, they have to give birth to calfs (calves?) When the babies are male, they are usually used for the veal industry. As you know, in the veal industry young male calves (bulls? what are they. sorry, a little naive with the proper names) are forced to live in cages most of their lives, with their legs broken so that their tissue/meat will be tender upon eating. When female cows reach the end of their milking lives, and can no longer give birth, they too are murdered, and used for meat. In addition, the cows are pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, usually never see the light of day, live inside their whole lives, live amongst hundreds to thousands of other dairy cows so that they do not have any space to move even three inches, and are forced to eat their own feces, sleep in their own feces, and hell basically breathe their own feces. In conclusion, the dairy industry still causes major, major, major pullution, and contributes to the meat industry. Thank you
the reason people are vegetarians is because we have grocery stores and produce stores. You can get fruits and veggies that normally wouldn't be available in your area. But if we happened to lose all this technology and supermarkets, try surviving the winter without eating meat, I think its sad all the slaughterhouses nowadays. Nobody honors the deceased. Many tribal cultures honored the aminals the hunted, I think there is a difference between something that is just bred to be slaughtered and actually hunting out of necessity.
Many dairy cows are pregnant when they are killed , some are very late in their pregnancy, some even give birth on the trucks and when inside the slaughterhouse. I think milk is worse than meat, milk means a cow has to be constantly pregnant, that many baby cows are born and then hurt and killed and the dairy cows themselves are treated bad and i agree it is intertwined with the meat industry. Think of all the burgers, mince and cheap meats that come from dairy cows. http://www.viva.org.uk/photogallery/Slaughter/PregnantAnimals.htm (warning graphic pictures) "Pregnant cows slaughtered: 150,000 pregnant cows are killed each year - 25% of them in the third trimester of their nine month pregnancy." (UK) http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/slaughter/sentencedtodeathreport.htm http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/pregnantanimals/pa-briefing.htm "Throwaway Lives, Stop the massacre of pregnant animals" http://www.viva.org.uk/mediareleases/PR-1999/hitsback.htm
Didn't know dairy industry is just as cruel as meat industry...OK that's it. Next week I'm gonna be vegan ( or give it a try)
Because a) I'm on a diet,and need protein, I can't just eat soy. b) need to break it to my parents c) there's, like 10 yoghurts (NO GELATIN OF COARSE),2 creamed cheeses,and 3 packs of milk I need to get rid of. I don't want to waste all that suffering...
Fair enough that's you'd want to use up all that dairy first, rather than waste it. But it's not really that hard to get protien as a vegan, protien's in heaps of things, not just soy.
