Vegetarian
There are lots of things in our lives that cause animal, human or environmental harm. Some we already know about. Others we blindly ignore until an intrepid investigator breaks the story.
Even the most innovative or seemingly innocent products can have a murky past. Angry Birds loses its fun when you consider the Apple workers committing suicide in China. And Valentine’s Day becomes ever so slightly more nauseating when you learn that those chocolates you bought the mother of your children may have furthered the slave trade of other children in Africa (at least, that’s what I told her when I forgot to buy them).
Human actions always seem to have an impact somewhere in the world. All we can do is try to mitigate or fix the problem once we are made aware and move on better for it. Except, it seems, with meat production.
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I want to conduct an experiment. I’ve tried it at home and reckon it’s ready for a bigger venue. The Sydney Opera House would do. Or perhaps the Louisiana Superdome. I want a huge audience and plenty of space in front of the stage. People with sensitive ears be warned, there will be opera. I need divas. I want Wagner and cleavage and buxom plaited blondes.
I want helicopters and Robert Duvall (without the napalm). There will be a monster flower garden planted in front of the stage and when the time comes to bond the divas with their bouquets, an army of florists will prowl the garden. They’ll be picking, snipping and binding the most exquisite and beautiful of the freshest opening blooms.
Here’s what would not happen at my opera.
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Anonymary says:
Great article.. thank you.. also Miranda Devine shouldnt be a journalist as she doesnt write - she merely vomits on a page Read more »
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Kelly E says:
I’ve been a healthy vegetarian for 13 years, and I stopped eating fish three years before that… No supplements needed, no health issues at all. I’m also studying to be a nutritionist. With that in mind, I’m all for a sustainable meat industry. If animals were farmed/killed in such a… Read more »
Here’s a new way to think about what you’re eating every day.
Next time you’re standing in front of the fridge, pull out the most processed item you own and make a call to the manufacturing company that produce it. Ask them if you can come around and take a look at the factory, and see how they do things.
If they agree, prepare to be horrified, says Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Direct says:
Blatant lie. Small LDL particles, is the major cause of coronary atherosclerosis (heart disease), only occur genetically or as a byproduct of processing carbohydrates. Read more »
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Sharon says:
Thanks Lucy, you are right that eating less meat can make a difference - to the environment, our health and to the animals (Australia alone breeds and slaughters over 500 MILLION every year!). It’s all about choosing to do less harm. There’s plenty of highly credible research info, nutrition guidelines… Read more »
I am not a vegetarian. But I’m trying to be one because the killing of animals bothers me.
As a city-bred child the first time I saw an animal being slaughtered was while seeing the film Apocalypse Now, and I had trouble coping with watching something die. “At what exact point did its life end?”, I remember thinking.
It was the final scene in the Cambodian jungle, the setting for insanity and hell, when the poor cow was hacked gradually to death by a slight man with a machete. The initial impact was a mere tap. The cow wobbles a little, its legs faltering. The second and third strikes open up the back of its neck revealing the spine and a translucent red, and the legs give way to the huge dying mass above them.
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KJB says:
I wish I could fathom a response to justify the pure anger towards those a) making this a joke b) proudly eating meat. Vegetarian, healthier than ever and guess what - I AM morally superior than you. I am better than you, because I don’t torture and murder anything to… Read more »
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Tania says:
There are plenty of great examples of vegan/vegetarian athletes out there and many people who quietly go about their daily vegetarian lives. To become vegetarian or vegan is to face the truth…killing non human animals for food/clothing, sport or experimentation is morally/ethically wrong. No matter if you kill the animal… Read more »
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