Veg

My entire family is vegetarian.  Well, almost.  My entire father's side is vegetarian and my mother's side is also fully vegetarian, but when it comes to my direct family, the only person who's a vegetarian is my mother.  I hadn't really thought of this much until this week where we talked about eating lobsters.  The part of this week that really stuck with me is the video that was shown of the conditions of these animals before they are killed.  Multiple chickens are kept in a single cage, many die of starvation, many have their beaks seared off by a hot rod.  It's "something like a Roman Circus or medieval torture-fest"  It made me so sad to see these animals getting treated like this.  So, I want to try to change my diet and buy "ethical meat items."  These items will be meats from animals that were treated right and properly.  Like the lobster being boiled alive, these animals are being kept in the most inhumane conditions possible.  Knowing this, I can't look at my box of McDonald's chicken nuggets (If that's even chicken) the same.

Here is one (of many) videos documenting some of the conditions animals have to go through.