Animal Liberation Book
May 26th 2010 21:00
Just as I vowed to cut down on my spending, I spotted the following book at a second hand store HERE .
The cover was disturbing enough to make me pick it up. I found more disturbing pictures inside of animals being experimented on and being housed in cramped conditions. I quickly flicked through and skimmed a couple of pages. Yes, I had to purchase it. I justified my purchase by the amount of money I was saving: I had seen a new copy at another bookshop for about $47. The second hand copy was in good condition for a third of the price. Okay, I decided to take it.
I handed the sales person my money and she asked me if I had read it before.
“No,” I said. “It looks confronting.”
“It is,” she replied. “Do you eat meat?”
“Yes, but I’m cutting down.”
“After reading this I think you will change your mind.”
That comment I had made about eating less meat was true; along with my decision to slowly ease off eating meat due to animal welfare issues was my doctor’s orders to lose some weight. Every year I get weighed when I have my check up. Every other year my doctor has said nothing about my weight. But the last time she weighed me she told me my BMI was now in the obese range and I needed to lose weight. So far, I have managed to lose enough weight to put me back into the normal weight range – albeit at the higher end of the scale. By eating smaller portions I was cutting down on my impact on animals – not that I eat a lot of meat to begin with as I don’t like any meat apart from chicken, ham and beef. By the same token, I really hate vegetables, else I would simply switch to a vegetarian diet. My mother is a vegetarian but I have tried some of the dishes she makes and they taste horrible – or maybe she’s a bad cook or it’s a combination of the two.
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