Week 5 - Expert Lecture Posting

Week 5 - Expert Lecture Posting

One question I ask vegetarians when I meet them is, "Why are you a vegetarian, don't you know that a balanced diet includes a large amount of protein?", most reply with they are a vegetarian because they don't like the taste of meat, or that meat makes their stomach hurt. I feel for the animals in this film from P.E.T.A. just as much as the other people that watch this film do, but I think that first this film uses graphic images to portray the idea that all slaughter houses are like the ones in this film, which I know to be an incorrect fabrication, and that some of the acts in this film are illegal. One question that enters my mind after discarding the shock this film produces is, What would happen to the animals if we used the grain to feed third world countries, wouldn't they die? If we stopped eating meat, wouldn't we have a large cow and pig population problem on ours hands? If we did stop eating meat where would the increased amount of vegetables needed to feed the populace come from?

I don't think that the radicals at P.E.T.A. have actually thought about these questions, and what the ramifications would be if the nation stopped eating meat. I have a friend which usually helps me question the ideas of others and help them understand why they are doing what they are doing, his question to most vegetarians is "So its OK to eat vegetables because they don't scream, when you kill them?", this statement has a lot of meaning, and I think that the people that are behind the vegetarian movement should think about this, and what ethical questions come from the act of growing vegetables for slaughter.