Hypocrisy

[eumelia]

I'm a hypocrite.
Being at the Natural History Museum made it clear to me.
I'm a hypocrite.
How can I claim to be an Environmentalist when I'm a meat eater.
Okay, so humans are omnivorous and historically we used to hunt our game and grow it.
But you know what, I'm a grrl who has lived her entire life in the western world and has consumed (with great privilege and pleasure) all the west had to offer her.
I eat beef, I like hamburgers (real kind, I've not stepped into a Burger King in three years and a McDonald's in five years), I like kebab, shawarma, pargiyot, shrimp, salmon, lobster and tuna.
Yet I make sure all my face cleaning soaps, moisturizers and such are not tested on animals.
I'm a hypocrite.

I've often considered becoming a vegetarian, but it never seemed worth it because I love meat.
But in the past year my ideology (of which I had none during high school and most of my army service) is quickly solidifying, and in the past I used to think ideological vegetarians were cheating themselves.
I'm becoming aware that I'm actually cheating myself.
How can I be an advocate of animal rights, when I use them in such a disgusting way?
God the hypocrisy!

Comments

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I hate that I eat meat. I was vegetarian for six months about a year ago, and I feel so weak that I went back to meat just because it was easier.

I don't think there's anything wrong with killing an animal for food. I despise the WAY we kill them, the horrendous living conditions we put them through on factory farms. I despise how rain forests are cut down to grow enough grain to feed the animals on those farms--grain that itself could feed every hungry person in the world instead. I know all this and yet I still consume meat. I feel guilty every time--have ever since I was veggie for a while--but I do it anyway. And I do despise that about myself.