Animal Torture and Meat Morals
...ery (150) hard. My mother wasn't very supportive of my decision. She wanted me to continue eating meat. I had to work very, very hard to convince her that being vegetarian was healthier. Afterwards, she understood my decision. Milk, for example, is high in saturated fat, which can increase your cholesterol level. (200) Meat may contain antibiotics given to the animal before slaughter. Friends of mine ridiculed the idea. It's hard to be a vegetarian when almost everyone else isn't, but I just let them think what they wanted. This was the hardest part of changing; getting accepted and understood by my family and friends. By reading and learning about vegetarianism, (250) I not only gained knowledge of the harms of meat, but also learned about animal cruelty. Iams, the pet food company, has been funding laboratories throughout the United States that torture poor innocent animals. They were found with dogs that had gone crazy from the intense confinement to barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs (300) left piled on a filthy paint-chipped floor after having chunks of muscle hacked from their thighs, dogs surgically debarked, horribly sick dogs and cats languishing in their cages, neglected and left to suffer with no veterinary care. Iams have been asked to improve these conditions, but they have yet to change anything, (350) besides providing toys for the animals. Other animal torture includes cows and their young. Baby cows are put in crates, deprived of all sunlight, and then used for making veal. Why? When sunlight is taken away, calves have much less fat, and thus, "taste better". When I was visiting in Mexico a long...