WheekingPiggies
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2012
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- Joined
- Aug 8, 2012
- Messages
- 386
Amen to this! I've been vegetarian for over a year now. Very few of our close friends and family are vegetarian. I can think of just two others. One thing that is important to me is not judging people for eating meat. People ask me all the time if them eating meat bothers me, but it honestly doesn't. They have the right to choose their diet, as do I.Dying animals isn't cruel, dying chicks and bunnies leads to irresponsible ownership that I can guarantee you, just look at any shelter or rescue a month or two after Easter when all these people realize those adorable bunnies and chicks they just bought are getting bigger and in need of vet care, space, time, and can be quite destructive. Then if they're to lazy to take them to the shelter some people will just let them go in the wild. This is all awful yes- but dying animals doesn't hurt them, and pet safe dyes (which all pet salons use) don't contain chemicals harmful to dogs. Many dogs enjoy being groomed and pampered. My Min. Poodle mix loves going to the groomer, she loves the attention she gets, she loves baths, and if I was so inclined (which I'm not) she would enjoy the attention being dyed would give her. I personally don't enjoy dressing her up or decorating her but that's my personal choice. Although she has a million pretty coats, and even a panda outfit which doubles as her heavy duty winter coat.
Now to @CavySpirit: we all respect your decisions but you're not coming off as choosing the "peaceful" approach to life. You're coming off as rude, judgmental, and intolerant. I was a vegetarian for a long time, and today I actually maintain a fairly vegetarian diet, because I enjoyed those foods, and I love cooking (I am a pastry chef after all). In fact I have almost no dairy in my house but that is more on account of my lactose intolerance than anything else. However, my fiance loves meat, and far be it from me to impose my decisions on someone else. So I buy the groceries, and I buy ethically raised- cage free eggs, and free range meats, and small farm raw honeys. I don't buy seafood because there really is no ethical and safe way to fish or farm for the most part (well there are just no can afford to do them).
Our personal decisions do not give us the right to tell other people how to live- end of story. It shouldn't keep you up at night either, you are doing what you can and pretty much all you can, there is no reason for you to be agonizing over things you can't change.
My elevator speech about being vegetarian goes something like this: My reasons for being vegetarian may be different than some people, but I'm fine with it. I don't believe eating meat is wrong. That is just part of an ecosystem. Things survive off of other things. What I do have a problem with, is how the meat we eat is kept and raised. You'll never look at a burger the same way after watching videos of what goes on at a slaughterhouse. I don't want to support this cruelty, which is why I went vegetarian.