Thinking About Going Vegetarian
It all started a few weeks back when I saw a show on one of the educational channels; sorry I can’t remember which one it was. But they had a brief history on the cattle industry, specifically the processing of the animal for human consumption.
What concerned me the most was that Mad Cow Disease can’t be removed by any know methods including freezing or cooking and if infected can cause incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is ultimately fatal. Some of the symptoms include dementia, memory loss, and tiredness.
Though it is believed it can only be transmitted to human beings when they eat the brain or spinal cord of infected cows there isn’t enough conclusive evidence to state otherwise and that in itself has scared me. What made it even more scary is a video I saw yesterday on goveg.com where they tell us that cows with other diseases, infections, bruises and other unhealthy issues are deemed fine by the USDA for human consumption — if you saw these animals in person you’d think twice before eating it. Furthermore, the USDA even allows cows that can’t walk off the trucks to be be dragged off into the slaughter house — in other words your eating spoiled food.
Anyway, I’m doing my research and thinking a lot about all the flavors and textures my palette would miss if I did turn vegetarian, but on the other hand discovering how that going vegetarian is so much more healthier as well as very good for the environment.
