Just Animal Crackers
It took great courage, I battled with myself, these last days, deciding if it should tell and transcribe the following to you…
And I would like to extend a bit of this courage so that everyone can read until the end
It is asking too much?
Because in the end it gets much worse.
A thousand times worse.
But I have to be honest.
This is serious, it made me cry and be sorry.
I might not see you around here anymore… But I can’t live in peace if I’m not good with my conscience.
Today is our fourth day of being vegetarian.
And I’m enjoying it.
It is more work for me, this requires more creativity, imagination and goodwill… But we decided it was time to stop eating our animal friends. All those who have eyes, except for fish.
Still do not know if I’m being a vegetarian for my health or for the creatures that I stop eating. But the way I am, and I think it’s more for them.
I only know that now, I eat ‘my other friends’: vegetables, plants and grains.
Call me a lazy hunter, if you want to… 
But this healthy new journey, one thing I don’t want to be: self-righteous.
You can continue bar-b-queing!
Me too, many years ago, I crawled, jumped, and I ran and no one ate me.
And it wasn’t long ago, I was ready for this… but I was only waiting for Mr. Man Slipper Socks come with me.
And he got to where I wanted.
Saturday, after a long conversation, we decided not to eat any more corpses, no longer live off the death of others.
If some animals we love so much, that we shelter under the same roof, protecting them, caring for them as members of the same family…
Why do others have to be our dinner…?
Just because we are not emotionally attached to them?
What can I do?
Just chew the meat and not think about the cruelty that we are doing?
I had this quote from Einstein, taken from a box of tea, leaning up against my soup bowl, looking at me for a looong time…
“Nothing would benefit both human health and increase your chances of survival on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
I am very proud of every one who read up to this point, and even more so those who read till the end.
A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen:
“Cattle dragged and choked… knocking ‘em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they’re stunned they come back to life, and they’re up there agonizing. They’re supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren’t and they’ll go through the skinning process alive. I’ve worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They’re all the same. If people were to see this, they’d probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn’t mean anything.” ~Slaughterhouse 1997
Paul McCartney said:
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegeterian.
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Jesus said: Wherefore I say unto all who desire to be my disciples, keep your hands from bloodshed and let no flesh meat enter your mouths, for God is just and bountiful, who ordaineth that man shall live by the fruits and seeds of the earth alone.
Leiam por favor Atos 21:25 Que se abstenham das coisas sacrificadas a idolos,do sangue, da carne de animais sufocados(mortos por asfixia),e das relações sexuais ilícitas.
Eu concordo com vocês que é cruel a maneira em que matam os animais e não gosto de pensar no sofrimento deles,é uma decisão do seu coração e respeito imensamente seu sentimento. Espero que consigam, porque é bom para a saúde.
Mas não existe proibição de comer carne.Biblicamente falando. Leiam por favor Rm 14; 1Co 10; At 10 Um abrazo e um beijo de sua amiga pra.Susana
Susana,
You’re right. The bible does not “prohibit” the eating of meat. But Jesus was against animal cruelty and encouraged not eating meat, just as he discouraged drinking of hard liquor. The calling of being a disciple wasn’t for everyone, but abstination from eating meat was a condition to be a disciple. Not only that but it is much more healthy and leads to a more spiritual life.
I wouln’t say it’s a sin to eat meat. But when you think of it, it seems a horrible thing to eat animals who have been cruelly tortured and killed. Besides all of the chemicals and hormones they inject into the poor animals!
I don’t think it’s wrong to eat meat, but I do think that Americans eat entirely tooooo much, especially red meat. I think most people would be healthier to cut out most meats and stick to fish & poultry.
What’s wrong about it is it’s just not healthy. Another thing is all the chemicals, hormones and antibiotics, etc. that are injected or fed to the animals that we get second hand. The second thing is that the animals are cruelly treated and slowly and painfully killed which also leaves dangerous toxins in the meat — again bad for your health.
The third thing is that Jesus encouraged not eating of “flesh meat” (this does not include fish). It is one of the requirements of being a disciple. Of course, most Christians wouldn’t know about that, thanks to the Roman Church, whose “correctors” or “copyists” took these verses out of the canonized version of the bible (KJV) in order to be able to win over the emperor Constintine to Christianity, who loved to eat meat and drink stong drink at his pagan festivals.
Consequently, sincere christians who were against the Roman church’s corruption of the original manuscripts of the gospel were persecuted, martyred and wiped out. What’s more the church of Constantine had all of the original aramaic christian manuscripts burned so that no one would know of the perfidity that they had done against our Messiahs teachings. However, fortunately, they weren’t able to find and destroy every last original manuscript…
Jesus prophesied: “After my departure there will arise the ignorant and the crafty, and many things will they ascribe unto Me that I never spake, and many things which I did speak will they withhold, but the day will come when the clouds shall be rolled away, and the Sun of Righteousness shall shine forth with healing in his wings.”