long time no see
ok...I know I haven't been posting. A lot has been going on...I'm engaged now! Still going strong on vegetarianism! ^.^ There's a reason for this post.
The past two days I don't know how I keep ending up in debates about vegetarianism...but when someone challenges it around me...I defend it obviously.
My friend Joslyn at work, as great as she is...she's beyond anti-vegetarianism. She claims "humans are innately carnivores". And I keep trying to tell her that humans are actually omnivores which means they can survive with or without meat. She is all like maybe we can survive without it but since the cavemen, we go for meat. It was just like a circle of never-ending debate.
And now on facebook...a friend simply posted this page about a bilboard put up by PETA in florida. I have no problem with this billboard since ya know what? Obesity is one of the biggest health issues in america. We are the fattest country. Period. There is no debating that. But because peta didn't use politically correct terminology my friends are all up in arms about it. But they'd probably be just as up in arms about it is it said "Save the Morbidly Obese...Lose the pounds of fat, Go Vegetarian" instead of "Save the whales...lose the blubber, Go Vegetarian". I thought the whale perspective was cool since they're relating animals right to the idea of reducing obesity by urging america to go vegetarian.
And my friends are putting down the whole thing, especially Sarah who started off the debate complaining about trying to go vegetarian made her become pre-diabetic and she had to give up apples. And I'm like...well, do research and you probably can't eat apples anyway if the natural sugar in them is making you diabetic. I'd paste her post here, but she deleted it after I responded saying I was offended and trying to show her my side and PETA's probable side. But she wasn't having it...she just kept making new arguments and not backing anything up. so whatever. I'm done...now I'm just annoyed and wanted to rant.
Before you form an opinion about about vegetarianism or PETA or any other animal rights organization, why don't you do your research. They've had sooo many campaigns before this...and if this is the one that gets you thinking, then I think that's good. Animal Rights is becoming more in-your-face with the pro-veg Compassion Over Killing (COK) commercials airing on MTV and billboards and whatnot. I fully support it.
Okay...I'm done with this. I'm gonna try to let it go. I just hope nobody starts another friggin debate like that again in the near future.
It doesn't help that I worked 12 hour shifts on wednesday and thursday so I'm still so overtired that last night I had an emotional breakdown over my hair not cooperating.