Kudos go to my son Danny, for providing the impetus of today’s blog. A few weeks back, he declared (in his 26 yr. old joyous reveltorical-way) that eating MAMMALS was dead wrong, that they were way too high on the (intelligent) food chain!  “Ugh, o-k-a-y, okay!” I said. I continued “Okay, now look out, cause you have just unlocked the latch that had securely kept my Pandora-word-box (la big bad bouche) quiet for far too long”…let the wild rumpus begin!!!
For years now, I’ve had to temper my dag-burned righteous militancy whenever the topic of  the life-style of vegetarian-devotion (namely, mine!) came up for discussion and clarification. I have been holding-my-tongue in deference to my kindly husband’s more diplomatic sensibilities and his Obama-like approach…to everything!!
But ya know what?! No more kiddo…oh no…no more! Hang on [let-er-rip Perk]…thar she blows!!
Yes! I am a vegetarian.
Yes! That means that I do not eat dead animals!
Yes! That means that I do not eat mammal muscle (it ain’t gonna be pretty, people!)
Yes! That means that Bambi, Flicka, Thumper, Babe, Lassie, Mary’s lamb, and Ferdinand are completely safe around me!! (Anthropomorphizing!?? Not really!)
Whew!! There! I have held it in for way too long…41 years as a compliant, non-proselytizing, quiet-living vegetarian…whew! Indulge me please, as I am beginning to free myself from the grip of the immoral meat-masticating majority! All these decades of polite political-correctness on my part…stifling and squelching myself so as not to upset the carnivores among us…well, ha ha, no more Mrs. Nice-Gal!!
The horrible disease-riddled manufacturing of mammals, the unsafe amounts of endocrine-disrupting hormones shoved into these unsuspecting innocent creatures and then actually butchering and eating these defenseless animals, has my moral-dilemma in a fever-pitch!! I’ve been pushed over the edge and I must speak-up and speak-out for the good of human”kind” AND for the mammals that are mistreated for their entire lives, only to be EATEN later! EATING MAMMALS IS WRONG!!
It is wrong for the animals, and it is wrong for the impact that it has on a growing world population that has become so out-a-control that food is unavailable to hundreds of millions of people, daily!!
If the wall of morality is not enough to halt the onslaught of slaughter, and push you off the corral fence and into the pen to save these helpless farm-friends, then maybe these itty-bitty factoids will…….
1. Housing and manufacturing (butchering!) animals for food, causes more air pollution and water pollution than cars, trains and buses combined. Simply, they belch and “toot” tons of gas from their bodies and it is very polluting! The animal population would then naturally decrease if we stopped farming them for food, and so would a large portion of our water and air pollution.
2. These killing and packaging dead-animal-flesh factories, are riddled with e-coli and salmonella and other bacteria-miscreants that poison hundreds of thousands of people every day.
3. Hormones! Endocrine -disruptors! Innocent mammals, raised for the purpose of killing them so as to please our gustatory gumptions, are pumped with cell-altering components. Hormones!! This results in human”kind” having more dis-ease, cancer and FIBROIDS, forsooth!
4. For every 1 pound of dead-animal-muscle to be eaten, it takes pounds and pounds and pounds of grain (food) to feed them. What a waste, as this grain (food) could solve the problem of feeding the starving millions who do not get enough nourishment at all!
Convinced!!?? Yikes I know I have been harsh…I know. Look, I truly am a live-’n-let-live type of gal. And I definitely do not expect you to become a vegetarian just cause (wacky) Wendy says to! No…I just ask you to ponder, question and ask your heart (not mindlessly go along with) if eating animals is for you!
By becoming a vegetarian, you impact your life (health), the animals life (sigh), and the untold millions of impoverished-humanity around the big blue marble…Earth!  Now, that’s a Win-Win-Win for ALL of the planets glorious creatures! Let’s do the right-thing…shall WE?!