This isn't a candidate diary. This is about how I almost became a vegetarian while at lunch yesterday.
My boyfriend and I went to a local chinese restaurant for lunch. We'd never been there before, and it was withing walking distance of his place, so we decided to give it a go.
So we sit down and there's a tv on with Fox News on it. I have as much disdain and loathing for Fox News as anyone, but it was a TV, and it was on, and therefore I watched it. What a terrible idea.
Yesterday was president's day, and Fox's headline was "Lincoln commuted 45 minutes to white house"
...okay. Whatever. The volume wasn't on, but they were doing a tour of the lincoln house.
Normal Fox stuff, I guess.
My fod arrived. I momentarily lost interest in the television and began eating. I was eating teriyaki chicken.
Then I look up and there's a sick cow getting basically run over by a forklift. My boyfriend couldn't see it, but could see the face I was making.
"There's cows getting run over by forklifts on the TV..."
"...Eww.."
He wisely did not look, I stupidly could not look away. They were running a story on the beef recalls.
It went on to show a man zapping cows with an elecrode, kicking a cow, and lots more sick cows just laying on the ground. They played the forklift cow thing like 4 times.
First I was pissed that the restaurant had this on the TV. How the hell am I supposed to eat while that's on? Then I was pissed at Fox News for just being sensationalistic with the coverage and showing the same thing over and over and over again.
Ugh, sometimes I really am close to being vegetarian when I see all those types of videos and read about the horrors of the meat industry. So far I've been completely unable to give up any meat at all, even after watching things like http://www.meetyourmeat.com and other items... (careful if you go there....it's not pretty...)
Anyway, so that's how my lunch got ruined, and I feel awful for eating these poor animals...but I can't stop. I'm not sure that I really want to stop, and that to me is the awful part, that even after seeing the terrible lives of these animals, I could continue to be a small reason they live like that.