Countries Go Vegetarian

It is incredible all these things that are happening. Are we finally developing a conscious?

Yeah it is very cool to see SS. 

What a great story and the pictures are so beautiful.

This is awesome!!!!

I like all of your headlines - maybe they are a little sensationalized but they grab attention and then we all read it!  

PIM of Spain, it is simply a choice that we can make.  You don't have to make it, no one is forcing you to make it.  But please don't make out that by deciding to cut out meat or simply reduce your meat consumption, that the entire world will do a back flip and riots all over the world will occur.  It is yet another excuse when the facts are becoming more difficult to ignore.  The presidents and executives of the world will be able to cope just fine if they do implement certain things to save the planet.  When there are no animals to slaughter, there will be new things that need to be done.  At this stage though, we can make a difference right now on a personal level - for the environment, for our health, for the poor animals.  

Boy!  I bet a BLT is cheap there.  I'd like one now.  Is there something wrong with their cows and chickens?  I don't want to be a vegetarian.  God probably has better tofu planned for Heaven than I can get around here.  Yuck!

I would become a vegetarian if I actually had to "kill for my food."  But I don't.  When I buy bacon, it looks nothing like a pig, so I don't make the connection.  That is also why I only buy boneless breast of turkey and chicken.  Bones remind me . . .

Did I ever tell you about the time when I was a little girl growing up in a country Tennessee town, and some people from deep in the country came to visit my mama one Saturday afternoon?  Mr. and Mrs. Holstrom promised Mama that they'd bring a fresh chicken for our Sunday dinner.  They raised their own.  I will never forget that day.  When they parked the truck, Mr. Holstrom reached into the bed of the truck and pulled out a LIVE CHICKEN!  He was standing there smiling and holding a poor chicken upside down by its feet that were secured together with a string!  The chicken was flapping her wings and throwing feathers around and screaming.  I wish I had a picture of that.  My brothers and I had to leave the porch, because it would be impolite to laugh right then and there. Poor Mama had to stand there and pretend that is exactly what she expected them to bring - a really fresh chicken if I ever saw one! 

After the Holstrom's visit, we asked Mama what was she going to do with that live chicken.  She told us to get in the car and take it off someplace and turn it loose.  So that is what we did.  We drove way into the country area of town near some farms where we hoped the chicken might find a home, and we turned the chicken loose.  We had fed her corn and water and petted her to keep her from being scared in the car.  So when we turned her loose, she actually ran behind the car, like she was being deserted!  Well, I suppose she was, but it beat the alternative.

Mary

Thank you all for your beautiful messages - It is very very very encouraging to see the governments taking action and doing what it is needed to be done to save the Earth.

Good idea to go meatless for one day a week.  Good for health, good for the budget.  If you are thinking of animal welfare however, you would have to cut out eggs and dairy as well.  Think about what happens to all those roosters and bull calves.

Yeah that is right Barbara - Factory farmed chickens, and dairy farms are disgusting. I have witnessed perhaps the most cared for cows on a dairy farm - and it was heart breaking. Hearing a baby calf cry for its mother is appauling. All they want is love and some food - and it is taken away from them at birth.

And the lies told about 'free rang' eggs is also shocking - these so called 'free range' farms only require the chickens to see some sun - it is not even essential that they get to roam freely. The lies consumed by Humans, due to our apathy of research is appauling.

Don't let mass media run our lives and dictate how we live. We are so much better than that.

That picture of the pig is so cute,

Again, the title is misleading.

While vegetarianism is a very very good thing, humans have been eating meat for centuries, if not always.

Factory farms are not good.

But, really these articles need non-sensationalist headlines.

Thank you for the feed back - your commnets and opnions are always so very much appreciated.

Though your apathy in making excuses for meat consumption is a bad habit. Too much evidence, too much support and now countries going vegetarian is still not enough for you.

You should try it - even for one day a week. 

Thanks this post, very useful!

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I know you all above will disagree with me, but this is not  my personal opinion... but my knowledge about the reality that drives the market, which we can't change for the better. Now in India and China the middle class are entering the market of westernized eating habits, the situation is just getting worse from what you suppose to reach: Back in 1980 the per capita meat consumption in China was about 44 lbs a year; now it tops 110 pounds. In 1983 the world consumed 152 million tons of meat a year. By 1997 consumption was up to 233 million tons. While the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that by 2020 world consumption could top 386 million tons of pork chicken, beef and farmed fish. I wonder how you can change that. Mind you all the farmers, breeders slaughters, butchers, haulers, storages, freezers, cargo shippers, etc. that are losing their businesses, their job and income. A gigantic exercise to readdress all these interests in an opposite direction, not to think about all the riots, strikes, protests and demonstrations. From behind the desk it looks simple, but beyond its reality what counts. I'm curious to learn from all of you 'vegies' how you will cope for example being the President of such a country or as Executive in charge with its vegetarian implementations and not to forget the riots and insurrections from millions of people involved? I guarantee; you won't feel much better without meat anymore!

I gaurantee there wont be time if you dont change - all these things you talk about will be irrelevant - the little things that prevent you from realising your true beautiful nature will be lost - and precious time you had left, wishing you could have done more.

I hope that this is not the case, so please act. It is real - I just posted an article - Four years to save the Earth. This has been published in the Guardian newspaper.

Scientist, climatologist all agree - there is only one solution - don't eat meat - be veg. All those other things you talk off - they are nothing compared to what could face us if we don't change.