{"id":1627,"date":"2016-02-02T03:56:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2016-02-02T03:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:56:23","slug":"on-vegetarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2016\/02\/on-vegetarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"On Vegetarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lisasimpson\"My 13-yo daughter wrote the following speech to give to her 8th grade English class.\u00a0 While I continue to eat (guiltily) eat meat, I am extremely proud of her.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2014, 30,170 innocent cows were brutally murdered in slaughterhouses, for YOU to eat your steak, hamburgers, hotdogs, etc. 8,666,662 little chickens were slaughtered for your chicken nuggets. 106,876 sweet, adorable pigs were killed for your bacon. You may not care, to you animals may simply be meaningless, their only purpose being your food. But they\u2019re not. Why are some animals okay to eat, and not others? Why would you happily eat a pig, or cow, but the thought of eating a cat or dog is terrible?<\/p>\n

In 2014, I stopped eating meat. 6-9 months before that I had stopped eating all meat except chicken. I honestly have no clue why I thought it was alright to eat to eat chicken. But, I did stop. Why did I stop eating chicken? A Bones episode. It depicted a warehouse full of chickens, each of them given less than a foot of space to live. It depicted baby chicks getting their beaks cut off, because when they got older, they\u2019d fight each other, from the stress of not having any room to live. I don\u2019t know if what they showed was true, I haven\u2019t had the heart to research it, not wanting to think about what was truly going on. It was at that moment that I decided I couldn\u2019t stomach the idea of forcing an animal to go through that, so I could eat something, I really didn\u2019t need. The idea of their lives having to end, for them to have to stop existing, for a hamburger or chicken nugget.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it was hard to become a vegetarian, maybe it was because I hadn\u2019t eaten cow, or pig in so long, maybe it was because I truly believed that it was just wrong and cruel to eat the carcass of a deceased animal. I think what was harder, was learning later on that there are things I didn\u2019t know about that contain meat. Gelatin is in marshmallows and gummies, it\u2019s made from boiling the tendons, ligaments, bones, and skin of pigs or cows. Lard is pig fat, it\u2019s in a lot of Mexican food, being used to make quesadillas and refried beans. Truthfully, I didn\u2019t know at the beginning, and I\u2019m still finding out about new things that I can\u2019t eat. If you want to count me actually becoming a vegetarian by when I stopped eating gelatin, or lard, fine by me. But I count it as when I decided it was wrong to.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to turn you into a vegetarian, because I know it won\u2019t work. I think I mostly just think everyone should understand what these innocent creatures have to go through for you to eat something, many of you take for granted. And if you start to question your ways, that\u2019s just fabulous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 13-yo daughter wrote the following speech to give to her 8th grade English class.\u00a0 While I continue to eat (guiltily) eat meat, I am extremely proud of her. In 2014, 30,170 innocent cows were brutally murdered in slaughterhouses, for YOU to eat your steak, hamburgers, hotdogs, etc. 8,666,662 little chickens were slaughtered for your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[202,359],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-mika","tag-vegetarian","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}