Namasté everyone... I just got done watching "Meet Your Meat." By accident, really. If I had known it was that video I would have stayed far away. I'm not one of those desensitized youths who joyfully watches dads get hit in the nuts with baseballs on prime time TV, and I know better than to put myself through witnessing something that I feel powerless to singlehandedly change. But I ended up watching this video... And now I am almost literally paralyzed with horror, with fear, with shame, and with loathing. My buddy Geoff says to me, "They are probably just showing you the worst of it all" when I called him bawling my eyes out, choking, spasming with remorse. But I know better. Documentaries document, and they are real to the extent that the viewer can view them. They can be misleading but they do not lie. Until I can stand back and watch my meat die an honorable death, a death of the world in which sometimes the deer is caught by the wolf and sometimes the wolf goes hungry, I can no longer sleep with myself if I supply the demand of the industry that can treat breathing, feeling, soul-filled creatures the way it does. I know advocacy is hard, heart-breaking work, just like beating your head into a wall. I am halfway to becoming a high school teacher, though, and that has potential. In the meantime I talk to a few different people every day, and those connections can be small seeds. I have no idea how to be a vegetarian. I don't even know if I want to be a vegetarian. All I know is I can no longer buy dishonest, cruel, dirty meat. I can no longer eat it. Eggs either. I know how they're "produced." I haven't drank dairy milk in over a year, anyway, because Silk is so much tastier. Cheese may be a problem, because a major part of my diet is this gourmet cheese that my mother packages at work. But I don't pay for any of that, either. She gives me the stuff that would otherwise be thrown away because of packaging imperfections. But now that I saw that video, I am pretty much scared of that, too. Any thoughts? ~Rawiyah
Yeah, that's a great video. It made me a vegetarian. Actually I have it on DVD and I show it to friends who want to know why I am a vegetarian. I plan to use that video with an upcoming school project I'm doing about the Fast Food Industry.
Where can you get ahold of that video, Id like to show it to some people here,,, maybe it'll help change their minds
Hi, Literally it's www.meat.org and it says at the top "The Web Site the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See." ~Rawiyah
I would rather hear about it than watch it too. There are some good sites for beginning vegetarians that helped me a lot, look at the sticky topics on the top of the forum.
I've been veg since i was five, but my husband eats meat,,, I really want him to be informed so he knows what hes eating,,, Thanx
You can view the video at PETAs site and buy the DVD for $10. You get a discount if your a member. It also comes with a bonus video "chew on this" and a collection of PETA commercials. Some are pretty funny.
i got a couple of those videos on dvd and donated them to the local library. i haven't been back since and in this shit town i wouldnt be surprised if some redneck threw them out but if just one person sees them and changes then that's pretty much the point.....if not then atleast i tried.
