Meet your Meat

Just wanted to share this video with you.



The video "Meet Your Meat", narrated by Alec Baldwin, covers each stage of life of animals raised for food. Seeing the inhuman conditions under which these animals are kept, waiting only for the day when they will be butchered, was a huge shock.
I sincerely hope that watching this makes you rethink if you depend on a non-vegetarian diet. You don't want to be the support mechanism for such organized crime, right?

I have shared this with many friends requesting them to go green and they often have a lot of questions before they take such a "big" step in their lives, after all there will be no chicken curry for dinner anymore...So here is a quick FAQ.

Q. Do you really want us to stop eating meat? I thought the message was more about preventing cruelty to animals - perhaps by killing them more humanely.
A. There is nothing called "humane butchering". Such terms are best suited to goons in Mithun movies.


Q. If you are asking us not to kill animals, is killing ants and insects equally bad thing...they are also living things and part of the environment, right?
A. It is difficult to say whether ants and insects are as important to the environment as pigs and cows. But they are definitely more important than you.

Q. I know cases where bullocks are beaten while they are made to plough fields. Following the same analogy ... All people who eat rice/wheat or any crop product should also rethink about it?
I am not sure if you were trying to be funny here. Since it did not make me laugh, I'll answer your question seriously.
I agree, there is a lot of violence in the world today. It's going to be a huge task to bring it down from 100% to 0% and will take a long time. But we can start sincere efforts to bring it to down as much as we practically can. Its upto you where you want to draw your line...70%...50%...30%...

Q. Lions eat animals, green is only for cows. I am a lion and not a cow.
For you I can arrange a duel with a lion. Let's prove once and for all that you are so brave. You don't have to resort to paying people money to kill chickens for you any more.