Best way to bring a conversation around to the cruelty involved with
eating meat:
Someone: "I love animals!"
Me: "Wow, so you're a vegetarian. I am too. I just can't believe
people think it's okay to eat meat. What a cruel thing to do
to animals. I could never imagine permitting and paying for
such horrible things... [blah blah blah]
Someone: "No, wait a minute. I'm not a vegetarian."
Me: "But... I thought you said you 'love animals.' "
Someone: "Well, yeah, but... "
Me: "Ohhh, so you only love SOME animals and you believe it's okay
to hurt the others. My mistake. I misunderstood."
It's that simple to start such a conversation. I've used this approach
a lot!
Another interesting point is this: Do meat eaters realize that they eat
mostly VEGETARIAN animals?? (except, of course, when meat-by-products are
mixed in with the animals' natural diet, making the animals UNnatural
carnivores!)
At 08:07 AM 1/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
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>Vegetarians plan carnivore converts
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>CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) - Vegetarians from around the world pledged
>Sunday to convert millions of meat-eaters by the end of the century and
>launched an Asian Vegetarian Union. The Bangkok-based Asian group seeks to
>foster the still-fledgling vegetarian movements in many Asian countries and
>counter a trend among the continent's youth to ape Western carnivorous
>habits. More than 400 participants from 30 countries at the 33rd World
>Vegetarian Congress concluding Sunday called on vegetarian groups all over
>the world to invite people to give up meat for the new millennium. A mass
>pledge-taking ceremony is planned at midnight, Dec. 31. See full story
><http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557977332-c40>
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