Steve
for some time now i have known you to be vegetarian but have never really known why. personally, i struggle with choosing to practice being vegetarian or not. so far i have noticed success in limiting the amount of meat i eat but still... i can't help but feel a certain sense of responsibility and sometimes get upset if i feel i've eaten to much of it. i wonder if you have any advice here. do you think you can share a little more about yourself, when did you decide to become a vegetarian ? were there any challenges or difficulties you had to face in choosing to practice vegetarianism ? what was/is the reason behind it all ?
thanks
ps,
The vast majority of Americans view eating meat as natural, normal and necessary while recognizing that vegetarianism is an ideology, or belief system. Thanks to Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy, Ph.D. (published November, 2009 by Conari Press), the way we eat animals now has a name and is exposed to be every bit as much an ideology as vegetarianism. "Carnism" is the belief system that says it's okay to eat certain animals and not others. Like feminism, racism, ageism and speciesism, carnism has been inflicting harm for centuries. And because it was invisible and unnamed, it was challenging, if not impossible, to confront it and and to argue against it.. Now that carnism has been identified, explored, and brilliantly analyzed, it will become a powerful tool in changing the ubiquitous and dangerous misconceptions about eating meat...
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/11/why-we-love-dogs-eat-pigs-and-wear-cows-book-review.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/Love-Dogs-Pigs-Wear-Cows/dp/1573245054"the gaps in our consciousness only become visible when they start to disappear"
-Melanie Joy
