Choices

I understand life is about choices. Easy to say when we live in a country where we are allotted that freedom. Easy to think our small dilemmas are noteworthy. Whether we should get a decaf soy latte or a short espresso. I get caught up in some self absorption, which does not. For the most part I just walk around numb with horror at this world I am living in. Not in a suicidal way, but in an overwhelmed way. 

I tired of explaining why not eating meat is a good choice.  Back when we were hunters and gatherers, we killed and ate from necessity like the other creatures. We were part of nature, in harmony with nature. When we took that step towards herding and farming man made the choice to put himself above all other living things on earth. By doing so he could justify taking this step where he was the master and above all else.

Look at the world around you? We live in a fast food; eat meat three times a day, the benefits of such a practice being shoved down our throats by the media and even our own government. For instance the benefits of milk.  I cannot imagine that if years ago we had not noticed a cow nursing its young that we as a civilization would have fallen down dead due to lack of calcium. The truth is the milk industry is big money, nothing more. What has happened to our society that we no longer question anything?

If you can watch any of the Peta videos I commend you do. Personally I cannot watch for long, the evidence of men killing things need not be proven to me, I need only look around at this screwed up world. What has happened to mankind, that they actually believe themselves to be superior to all animals on earth, and do not kid yourself that the majority do not also think they are superior to women as well. I really do despise them, find me more than one cruelty a year committed by a women and I will show you time and time again men abusing and killing the animals put in there charge, with apparent glee and lack of remorse. If there ever were a creature with no conscience it is man. You could line them up by the dozens and show them these atrocities and they would laugh, slap each other on the back and ask where the beer is.

Women are more likely to be vegetarian and vegan, and while cosmopolitan may claim it is because females are more health conscience and worried about their weight I would say it is because we live in a world where men are unable to make the ethical choice based on emotion when they are taught to not be compassionate and emotional. Also various studies have shown that women outscore men on reading non-verbal expressions of emotions. From this, one could see how women may be more in tune with the non-verbal suffering of animals.

So here I sit, feeling at odds with the world, as always, and as the days pass feeling more and more at odds with men.