To remind you:"If animals could talk, we'd all be vegetarians."
Here goes....
I'm a vegetarian. And I don't like that bumper sticker.
First, I like animals. I LOVE animals. Not as much PETA, most likely, but I do really enjoy watching, interacting with, reading about animals (etc). Especially my own. If they could talk, that would definitely change part of my reasoning for abstaining from meat. But, since they don't speak the English language, or any human-contrived language for that matter, thinking about eating meat doesn't equate barbarianism-in my opinion.
Second, if my broccoli talked, I think I would freak out a bit and refuse to eat it (I wonder if kids are scared to eat tomatoes, or asparagus, or peaches after watching Veggie Tales. But, that's for another blog....). If my mashed potatoes bled and cried as I cut them up, that would definitely change things.
But, the truth of the matter is:
animals don't talk.
animals never will talk, unless God totally recreates them physiologically.
i'm a vegetarian because I don't like the way my stomach feels after eating meat. and it's kind of gross to eat something with blood still dripping out of it.
to wrap it up:
this is a stupid bumper sticker.
i suggest:
"If meat made everyone expel foul-smelling gas, we'd all be vegetarians."
in my opinion, that is.
