BustyTheClown
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Okay, so a couple days ago, I was watching "Curious World" on the Travel Channel. Normally I love that show, seeing all the crazy shit people do all around the world -- including in the US. However, the episode that I saw on Friday should have come with a fucking warning or something, because it was gut-wrenching enough to throw me head-first back into vegetarianism...
The section of the show I'm talking about is when they showed a common dish in a Hong Kong restaurant -- namely, snake soup. That's not so strange, I thought. People eat rattlesnake where I come from (Arizona)... But part of the recipe is to skin the snakes alive. That's disturbing in and of itself, but I could have survived the show on what they said. Then, to my utter shock and horror, they cut to a shot of a woman skinning a snake alive (I was surprised at the lack of blood), and then a sinkful of the poor things, writhing around like a basin of giant baby pink noodles, undoubtedly in an immense amount of pain... Jesus, I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking about it.
I can't imagine what possesses people to commit that kind of cruelty against any other living creature -- human or animal. After I saw that, I realized that I could not simply dismiss the practice of skinning snakes alive for soup as some strange foreign practice, while still unabashedly eating the animals we hang by their feet, stun (which doesn't always work), slit their throats, bleed to death (we hope), and ultimately slaughter. In my mind, I can't rightfully say that one practice is any different from the other.
Thankfully, seeing that episode of "Curious World" gave me the reason I needed in order to go back to vegetarianism -- I had to quit about two years ago because I got sick from "malnutrition," I guess is what you'd call it. I've been struggling with eating meat for the time that I wasn't vegetarian, but I'm quadruply committed to it this time -- I've bought lots of fruits and green vegetables, pasta, cereal, bread, juice, milk, eggs, cheese, etc., to eat, as well as some multi-vitamins to make up for whatever else I'm missing from not eating meat.
I guess what I want to know is, is there anything else I should do to look out for my health? I'd greatly appreciate any tips -- or just reactions to the show, or whatever, lol.
The section of the show I'm talking about is when they showed a common dish in a Hong Kong restaurant -- namely, snake soup. That's not so strange, I thought. People eat rattlesnake where I come from (Arizona)... But part of the recipe is to skin the snakes alive. That's disturbing in and of itself, but I could have survived the show on what they said. Then, to my utter shock and horror, they cut to a shot of a woman skinning a snake alive (I was surprised at the lack of blood), and then a sinkful of the poor things, writhing around like a basin of giant baby pink noodles, undoubtedly in an immense amount of pain... Jesus, I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking about it.
I can't imagine what possesses people to commit that kind of cruelty against any other living creature -- human or animal. After I saw that, I realized that I could not simply dismiss the practice of skinning snakes alive for soup as some strange foreign practice, while still unabashedly eating the animals we hang by their feet, stun (which doesn't always work), slit their throats, bleed to death (we hope), and ultimately slaughter. In my mind, I can't rightfully say that one practice is any different from the other.
Thankfully, seeing that episode of "Curious World" gave me the reason I needed in order to go back to vegetarianism -- I had to quit about two years ago because I got sick from "malnutrition," I guess is what you'd call it. I've been struggling with eating meat for the time that I wasn't vegetarian, but I'm quadruply committed to it this time -- I've bought lots of fruits and green vegetables, pasta, cereal, bread, juice, milk, eggs, cheese, etc., to eat, as well as some multi-vitamins to make up for whatever else I'm missing from not eating meat.
I guess what I want to know is, is there anything else I should do to look out for my health? I'd greatly appreciate any tips -- or just reactions to the show, or whatever, lol.