I have so much to catch up on—I haven’t even posted my halloween pictures yet (bloody cupcakes from space!)—but here’s a little bit of election news. Read more about Prop 2 here. It’s far from ideal, and who knows just how much it will help (some believe laws were made to be broken), but it’s a step in the right direction. I’ll take less suffering over more, and I can only hope the campaign enlightened some folks about what is going on behind closed barn doors. Baby steps, boys and girls, baby steps.
I think this just proves that many people care about animal welfare despite what they eat.
Sure. I know before I cut out eggs and dairy I tried to buy free-range because as far as I knew, that meant something. When people are faced with the reality of how animals spend their lives in the name of butter and bacon, it can be–and should be–unsettling.
Last year, I drove past a farm along the freeway where the cows were all sitting outside. They were outside and not chained down, so they were probably “happy” cows. But they were a sea of cows, no room, all just sitting, sometimes overlapping. I thought to myself if I weren’t vegan before, that would have done it. To see those cows looking so sad and to think that they were the privileged, guilt-free-to-the-consumer cows, well, it broke my heart.
I think it’s harder to stay ignorant these days. Luckily, it’s also getting much easier to eat/live vegan.