Being vegetarian is depressing

[Guest guest]

Here you can attribute the cliché ³ignorance is bliss² to those other

people. Some days, I wish I were as clueless or detached as others (doesn¹t

seem to matter where I live; they are all around), but then I remind myself

of the Starfish poem...²It mattered to that one.² That one would be the one

I didn¹t eat, spoke out for or nursed back to health to live a better live.

You do what you can. You have to or others suffer.

 

Also, just know you are not alone. That¹s why we are here.

 

Tracy in MN

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[Guest guest]

You have a good point about us making a little progress(I'm sure

there's more somewhere other than here). We live where all you hear is

talk about hunting. It makes me mad but I got to thinking. At least

they are shot and killed pretty quickly, unlike the animals at the

slaughterhouses. Those animals don't even get to live in the woods

like they would in nature. Here where I live, my 5 year old daughter

and I are the only vegetarians that anyone has heard of, and people are

so closed minded about it. They are all the time criticizing us

because we don't believe the same way that they do. I always thought

that if people knew the true story of what happens to those animals

that they would quit eating them, but I was wrong. I have explained it

to some of my friends and showed them pictures, but they could care

less. A few of them actually told me that they didn't care what they

did to them and what they went through, they were delicious and were

going to eat them anyway. And others that wouldn't even listen and got

mad when I mentioned anything about it.

[Guest guest]

I remember something from childhood about a poem depicting a spared starfish,

but i seem to have forgotten how it goes. Would someone be so kind as to post

this poem? I need these things to teach my kids. We live in northern Ontario

where there are many natives and A LOT of hunters. In fact, our city was based

on the beaver trade. We have wild animals very close to humans, sometimes even

in the same yard. I think it is a different world up here than much of the USA.

It is hard to be vegan here, we recently went back to vegetarianism. It is a

little easier to maintain, but i am still under scrutiny. I am a single mother

and i deprive my children of meat, i must be inadequate somehow. I was keeping

them from dairy and meat, but they wanted dairy and some fish. I thought about

it and decided that if they wanted fish and dairy, i would get if for them. I do

not want to force them to be vegan, they have to value it themselves. My middle

daughter is the strongest vegetarian out of my

children and she does not want to fish. I am happy that she has made that

choice. Around here people throw dead moose right in the back of their trucks

and drive around. I do not know how familiar many of you are with the size of a

moose, but they can be enormous, so much of the corpse is exposed to onlookers.

It is a truly horrible feeling to see that. We still avoid leather and products

tested on animals. I know how all the animal trades connect to each other, so i

do have a lot of guilt. I just cannot keep it up for all 4 of us alone and being

in the north makes it even harder. Does anyone share any of these feelings?

~Shelly

 

Steve & Tracy Schad <schadfamily wrote: Here you can

attribute the clich� �ignorance is bliss� to those other

people. Some days, I wish I were as clueless or detached as others (doesn�t

seem to matter where I live; they are all around), but then I remind myself

of the Starfish poem...�It mattered to that one.� That one would be the one

I didn�t eat, spoke out for or nursed back to health to live a better live.

You do what you can. You have to or others suffer.

 

Also, just know you are not alone. That�s why we are here.

 

Tracy in MN

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