My point of view
7 years ago we got involved in animal welfare campaigning. Until that point we were quite happy meat eaters. Since we became involved in animal welfare we have come to learn what goes on in much of the "animal farming" world, and came to realise that much of what goes on, the industry wants to keep out of sight and behind closed doors. Thank heavans for Animals Australia!. We became vegetarians. Our "line in the sand" was that if we can personally kill it, we can eat it. I can catch a fish, I can pull a mussel off a rock, but nothing else. Since we stopped eating bird and meat, we have become healthier as we have uncovered all the amazing non-need -to-be-killed vegetarian foods available. We don't need it,, we don't miss it. Livestock are not an efficient means of protein capture, and most of the vast amounts of meat people are encouraged to eat are simply the results of the vast sums of money spent on marketing by the meat industry. "Don't eat lamb? That's un-Australian!"...give us a break. Call me cynical, but now we are seeing all these happy,smiley organic farmers sitting alongside their happy smiley saddleback pigs and chooks - you don't see the same farmer with a knife in their hand beside a neatly cut throat - why not??? Bottom line: you don't need to eat meat - something has had it's life ended because of you. I think all children should be taken and shown what happens at the abbatoir, don;t you? That would be fair would it not, so they get the chance to make their own choices on what they get to eat in life. Why not? Well, we know we know why that won't happn in a hurry don't we. At the end of the day, there are plenty of alternatives that actually taste better. So why do it, and ehy be part of it? Just my pov.
