Before I address the question of why I don't eat things I want to explain that I know that not all farm animals are treated the same.
The answers I give address the most common treatment, and because most people have no idea where their food comes from, is probably a lot more common than most people realise.
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Q: Why don't you eat meat?
A: My main reason for not eating meat is the cruelty. Its not right to pump an animal full of antibiotics and hormones to the point where it grows so fast that its own legs can't support it and they break. Animals should not have to spend their entire lives in a cage that touches them on every side. Its not necessary.
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Q: Why don't you drink milk?
A: A lot of people seem to have the idea that cows magically keep producing milk forever once they're impregnated and that if you don't milk them then they become infected and explode.
In actuality, cows produce milk for a set amount of time after impregnated, unlike humans, they have to be milked for that time, and don't continue to produce milk if milked longer than normal.
Because of this cows are impregnated every year, their calves are taken from them, and any males born that are not needed are immediately slaughtered as veal, and the female cows are raised to repeat the cycle of being bred and milked 'til death.
If a cow becomes unable to produce milk it is then slaughtered, even if it is pregnant.
Apparently unborn baby cow blood is valuable in China or something as well.
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Q: Why don't you eat eggs?
A: Battery hens. I don't really have a problem with free range but I find the concept of eggs kinda gross, I know they aren't technically the same as a period, but its close enough to put me off.
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Q: Why don't you eat lollies, jelly, ect (Geletine)
A: Geletine is made of castoffs, its skin, hooves, and such. I appreciate using as many parts of the animal as possible, but its just gross, that stuff thats holding your lollies together used to hold an animal's hoof together.
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God bless,
Asher.
