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saved bySteve Leckie on 2007-03-06

• Meat is filthy. It is dead tissue. It has little pieces of animal shit on it. It has colonies of microbes building little cities on it. It is actually the corpse of another creature. It's like walking up to a casket with a knife and fork...and you rednecks want to chew on that and eat it?
  
  Be my guest. But take a look around at the majority of meat-eaters before you do. They actually start to look like the creatures they eat: pigs and cows.
• I agree that chickens are the most abused animal...but I personally wish that meat-eaters give up eating cows and pigs first...there is something so heartbreaking about the crying (bellowing) of a mother cow and her calf who lovingly bond at birth and who are usually separated on the 1st or 2nd day after birth...cows are pregnant for nine long months, just like women...and pigs are as smart and friendly and loving as dogs...they even wag their little tails...they are so terrified at the slaughterhouse they have heart attacks...and all animals are so young (still babies/toddlers) when they die...i still care deeply for sweet chickens...God refers to the love of a mother hen for her chicks in the bible...and in tiday;s factory farms, hens never ever even SEE their chicks...there is something ungodly about it all..i am so glad i stopped eating all meat 2 years ago and don't have to decide which animal doesn't deserve life...and it was easier than i ever dreamed...and i feel like a new woman!