I Just Became a Vegetarian

Friends,

I came home and read some mail my mom had given me. Enclosed with it was a "Vegetarian Starter Kit" with some recipes and quotes from a bunch of celebrities about why they are vegetarian. I've seen this pamphlet before but never gave the inner pages a second glance. Since Ryan is a vegetarian we don't have meat in the apt anyway, but after scanning the pages of this pamphlet I decided to read a little further and do a little more research about where our meat comes from. The pages of the pamphlet had stunning facts about the hormones given to animals and the state they are often in when they get to the slaughterhouse. Without even seeing the video below I decided that from now on I would not order meat dishes in restaurants. After seeing the video I have decided that I will give vegetarianism a shot. This is why…

I have thought for a long time now that when we eat meat there's something greater going on then just our enjoying a different type of food. Animals are a very interesting sort of food, because to get them from living breathing animals to our table, they have to be "produced". They have to be killed somehow and then processed to be edible. I have very little problem with how the animals are processed after their dead, but when they're alive they have energy and emotions. Those emotions produce chemical surges through the body just like humans. When you feel stressed your body reacts (those of you familiar with Louise Hay know exactly what I'm talking about). Can you imagine what we're ingesting when we consume these frightened, crazed, overly stressed, sick, starved, and worked animals. They suffer in transit, often not making it. (That part reminds me of slavery.)

I urge you to consider what I wrote and watch the three videos I have linked you to below. I was a happy bacon eater before tonight. Consider this my Landmark Forum of food. I don't want to ingest the suffering they endured, I mean that literally. I hate to think of what those chemicals do to my body when ingested.

"Meet your Meat"


Organic Milk"


"Vegetarianism is better for the environment than driving a Hybrid"


Love,
Erika Rachel Bianconi