Thoughts on Vegetarianism

You probably don’t want to watch this, but it’s really horrible. http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp

I had no idea it was that bad. The really scary part is about the way that dairy cows are treated. I don’t know if organic milk does anything for this issue, and would like to find out.

I’ve been quasi-vegetarian for quite a while, or at least infrequent in my meat consumption. But I think I’m going to go fully vegetarian from now on.

I am convinced that if more people were just aware of what goes into the food that they eat, the world would be a very different place.

Mahatma Gandhi, among others, stressed internalizing the full extent of your actions, in both a political sense, but also in the economic and cultural choices you make.

It seems to me that that idea is very pertinent today. Animal cruelty in an industrial food production system is just one of many symptoms of a system where the true consequences of our actions are obscured because of the complexity of the systems we've built to support our lives.