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People have different motivations for eating a vegetarian
diet. For many people, it’s a health issue. They need to reduce their weight,
bring down their blood pressure and cholesterol, manage their blood sugars. A
vegetarian diet helps them do this.
For others, it’s also moral and ethical decision not to eat
animal products. Through the centuries, we’ve become accustomed to thinking of
man as superior to all other animals on the planet. We use animals for food,
clothing, shoes, belts or other accessories. We use them for scientific
experiments. We discount their place on the earth and consider that animals are
here to serve us and our needs.
PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
and is an organization devoted to changing that mindset among humans. They are
against using animals for food or for clothing, especially for what they
consider the needless or particularly inhumane use of animals, such as killing
or trapping them for their fur.
They are passionate about their cause. In their own words,
PETA believes that animals have rights and deserve to have their best interests
taken into consideration, regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like
you, they are capable of suffering and have an interest in leading their own
lives; therefore, they are not ours to use—for food, clothing, entertainment,
experimentation, or any other reason.
We are supposedly an evolved society. But how evolved can a
society be that thrives on the suffering of animals? In his excellent book, When
Elephants Weep, author Jeffrey Masson explores the emotional lives of animals
and presents compelling evidence for it. As a species, we must begin to
re-evaluate our place on this earth and where we fit in relation to every other
creature that inhabits it. PETA believes this as well and is a passionate
advocate for the rights of animals.
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