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Hi,
Just got back home and wanted to clarify my prior comments.
I was not endorsing PETA or Greenpeace first of all. I don't think taking things to the extreme the way both those organizations do really accomplishes things as effectively as possible. It clearly turns off many people to the causes they are fighting for as well.
I just believe it is important to have awareness of what goes on in the world. Then people can at least make a choice on the issues and either say fuck it or this is an issue that needs to be addressed and fixed as best as possible.
I've tried going completely vegetarian several times, but it was very difficult on my body and I felt it was impacting my health. Now I'm a semi vegetarian. I eat salads and vegetables and other health food as much as possible and have cut way back on my meat intake to at most once a week. I eat mostly fish when it comes to meat. And when I do have meat its in very small portions. It really does gross me out sometimes and I often think of what I'm really eating and start to gag.
I do think from a health standpoint our bodies were meant to have animal protein in our food sources. Obviously there is no way in hell people will stop eating meat unless some mass epidemic like that mad cow disease really blew out all over. But I just think the least we can do as carnivores is treat the animals that will be slaughtered to keep us alive in a humane manner. They should be provided space to move around. Food and water and a decent living environment. That's the least we owe them in consideration for killing them for our food.
Its clearly important that medical research still require animals for research though computer models are now becoming much more widely used. And hey if we're going to put a monkey through the tortures of experiments at least make sure he's got as much comfort as possible in light of the stuff being done to him. And if its possible to do the experiment with a computer model, our tax dollars shouldn't be used and wasted to keep some scientists lab going when it doesn't have to.
On the environment issue, the older I get the more I realize how badly we've fucked up our world. It is really getting out of hand with 6 Billion people now on the planet. The planet will not be able to sustain continued growth forever unless you take care of it in kind. Yeh we have to cut trees down, and yet we need to still drill for oil, and everything else. But as much as we can we should study the impact of everything we do and make sure if there is a way to do it without impacting the environment as much that should always be the way to go.
So in conclusion, lets at least be humane to the animals that keep us alive. Let's take care of our beautiful lands as best we can.
Thank you for your opinions. And I hope my position is now better clarified.
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