Vegetarianism: a choice to make

Are you against all forms of discrimination? Sexism? Racism?

How about speciesism?


The smiley girl sits at the dinner table with her family, only that instead of a smile on her face, a slight saddened orah surrounded her. She sat there thinking about the murders; more murders that she could count on her fingers, more than the amount of bones in her body, she felt like stephen hawkings, as though nobody could hear her, yet she was still being heard. The girl was often approached by curious meat consumers if she ever missed the juicy meat sensation in her mouth, but not eating meat to her, was like popping every bubble in bubble wrap. “Honey, how about a little piece tonight?” her worried mother would ask.

The girl thought about this as she eyeballed the golden brown juicyness and the blood red inside of the steak, she shook her head and continued eating her salad.


Everybody knows somebody who is vegetarian, whether it’s due to religion, health, economics, or the environment they are in pushes them to take on the vegetarian diet. Life is drained from animals 6,000,000 times a year, 50,000 - 60,000 pigs slaughtered in a slaughter home each year, 8.5 billion birds being cut to pieces in a single week, all this and we still consider ourselves to be the kindest species on the planet.

What comes around, goes around is an old saying that traces back hundreds of years, if the concept of karma is said to be true, what is the future for us humans that are responsible for the death of over 58 billion animals? We are mass murders, how we morally treat animals is parallel to the holocaust. Adolf Hitler ordered an individual who was responsible for a slaughter house to create, and mimic what happens in a slaughterhouse to the Jews. We say what happened in world war 2 was horrific, how is this not any worse?


We are indeed aware of the mass murder that we are responsible for, yet 375 million people around the world take the initiative to try and change this, those 375 million are the non meat consumers.

Some of these vegetarians are challenged with issues such as: finding a community that accepts them for who they are, locating nearby restaurants with vegetarian/vegan food, or educating others about the issue that we are faced with. It is understandable for non vegetarians to think that the no-animal diet is a hard lifestyle, but the outcome for most is very positive.

“I want to become a vegetarian, but I just think it’ll be too much of an effort’ says a middle schooler, this portrays the opinion of many people. Although the concept of a non meat diet sounds very inconvenient the amount of pleasure that comes out of it is incredible. “I’ve been vegetarian for a while now, and the outcome is great! I get the right amount of protein, and the funny thing is, I even feel happier now” says a father of 4. This outlines the positive outcomes that people have had.


It is hard to be vegetarian but the ending result is more than you could imagine. The slaughtery that is happening right now needs a change, whether it’s an individual movement or an organisational change.


The smiley girl came home from school again. This time instead of a downhearted little girl, she was in good spirits. Maybe her family decided for a no meat Monday, or karma had finally gotten to her.