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eumeliaI'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!
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!
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Date: 2006-04-25 11:37 pm (UTC)I too would like to live in a farming community... I think the "Gang" should start one and everyone in a while we should seperate in order to spread our superior gene, because pretty soon Hagar and Tami will invent a pathogen that will eliminate man kind MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
*cough* ahem... heh, I seem to have gotten carried away there ;P
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Date: 2006-04-26 12:02 am (UTC)(Oh, and, you know me too well.. :) )
Darn it, I miss you.. :)
*hug*
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Date: 2006-04-26 10:47 am (UTC)*nudge*
Date: 2006-04-26 02:41 pm (UTC)Re: *nudge*
Date: 2006-04-26 03:13 pm (UTC)Depending on the cost of living. As a first-year M.Sc. student, i'm going to have about 2,000 NIS per months, maybe up to 2,400. Even up to 3,000, if I get TA (מתרגלת).