I was never really the one who liked big chunks of meat like steak, a lamb/ pork chop, ribs, turkey or a leg of ham. The only big piece of meat I would really eat is ... chicken? For example, chicken wings and drumsticks etc which is pretty small anyway. Every other piece of meat I've had was always cut up in smaller pieces or in mince form. I've decided to try and be vegetarian for a week because I noticed the last couple of weeks I've been pretty much vegetarian for the entire day except for dinner, and if I can go without meat in the first two meals of the day, then who says I can't for the last meal of the day.

I think this began on Thanksgiving last year when I saw pictures of Americans celebrating and placing a whole turkey in the middle of their dining table. I was really sad. Although it's the same as having a whole chicken, there was something about seeing a whole turkey which is a lot larger than a chicken, being placed in the middle of the table as if it was like the holy grail and in a few minutes it'll all be devoured by people. It made me really sad. I didn't know where it came from but I was deterred from seeing any more pictures of a turkey that day.

Then I remembered when I was walking to my old workplace from the station where there would be butcheries lined up along the street that I'd walk on and trucks that opened with raw pigs dangling inside. My heart sank. It was so sad. There were so many pigs inside and they weren't just small, they were as big as me. I wanted to cry for them, for such cruelty we've done. They were killed and ripped open so we can enjoy them in our meals. This leads to the video I saw last week of how gelatin is made and I'm utterly disgusted. I had no idea where it came from and I sort of felt cheated?

Here's the video for those who haven't seen it yet




Then on Sunday when I went to the Festival of the Winds in Bondi with Jess, David, Eeh and Drew and wanted to find a place to eat, we stopped by Hurricanes to check if there were any tables available. There were these men sitting outside with their napkins tied on their necks devouring chunks of marinated ribs and eating them like it was just the best thing happening to them right now. I was so deterred and turned to Eeh and asked him if he liked that and he responded with 'that's like the best thing ever.' I can understand how fulfilling and desirable it is to have such a finger-licking platter infront of you and devour them in seconds to satisfy your stomach but it's a scary sight of watching us munch it down so quickly as if we were hungry monsters? well i suppose like survivors of an island who's readily able to kill an animal and eat them despite not acknowledging that they're an animal who's living and breathing just like us.

I'm sad for animals. I'm sad for what humanity has become for them, that killing and eating them has become our way of life. We're separating their families, forcing them to constantly reproduce so they can be killed... it's a never ending cycle.

I'M JUST SO SAD FOR THEM CAN YOU UNDERSTAND :'(



Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:36 AM