A Growing Trend

A few weeks ago, I featured a video "Meet Your Meat" on my blog. It exposed the meat-packing industry and was the primary reason I decided to go vegetarian.

This week the US was shocked by allegations of abuse at several meat packing plants. One in particular was shut down and the largest ever recall of beef was issued. It was shocking to hear that most of the meat from the plant goes to school lunch programs and had already been consumed by millions of children. Obviously the USDA is not to be trusted as was once thought.

So, it seems to be a growing trend; vegetarianism. Not because people are tree-huggers or environmental activists as was once perceived. People are cutting out meat simply because of the disgusting manner in which it is processed, the lack of safety, the harm to animals and the environment and because there is absolutely no verifiable evidence that there is any health value to it at all (other than being linked to obesity, heart disease, colitis, ulcers and,let's not forget: mad cow disease). People are waking up to the realities of the meat packing industry. There are tons of famous vegetarians and today baseball slugger Prince Fielder announced his move to a meat-free life. We hear everyday about the effects of oil consumption on the environment but little about the biggest culprit to global warming: cows (see article from the UN).