“I became a vegetarian at the end of the ‘60s when I read Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation. I hadn’t known about intensive farming. The next time I looked at a piece of meat on my plate, I thought, “Hmm. This symbolizes fear, pain, death. I don’t want to eat that.” So I stopped, just like that. Then I began learning more about all the terrible harm that heavy meat-eating is inflicting on the environment as more and more people eat more and more meat. It’s not just the suffering of the animals, which is what started me off on it. It’s the cutting down of the rainforest to get grazing land or to grow grain for cattle, it’s the huge waste of water in changing plant protein into animal protein. It’s the fact that the poor animals, to be kept alive, have to be fed antibiotics — you should only get antibiotics when you’re sick, not routinely. And so the antibiotics are getting out into the environment and the bacteria have become resistant. There are many, many downsides. But for me it started off because of the horrendous cruelty. – Jane Goodall
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 08:30:44 +0000
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