Going Vegetarian

Ever since I met Brenda I've been especially sensitive to animal-abuse stories in the news, and have become more aware of animal abuse in this country.

I've realized that animals are tortured every day on their way to our dinner plates. Both the meat and the dairy industry are incredibly inhumane. It's easy to not think about it and go on with everyday life but once you fall in love with a tortured animal, bring her or her into your home and accept her as an individual with thought, feelings, eating an animal, especially a tortured one, becomes unbearable.

I have cut out meat altogether and Ben now only buys meat from local farms where we can be sure the animals are treated at least much better than the huge big-business farms.

I would like to have the willpower to cut out dairy, but it will take me a while. There is only so much soy I can take. Luckily, there are enough small dairy farms that report to treat their animals humanely.

It's a strange world we live in.