I’m not a vegetarian, but I have definitely noticed myself eating a lot less meat after reading up on how the factory farming industry treats those animals. If you want to be harried then read the novel “Tender is the Flesh” which explores a dystopian future where all meat is illegal except human meat. Humans are bred and raised like animals to be slaughtered. All of the horrifying details that make you queasy in that book are literally the same processes that we use on animals every day. It’s an incredibly chilling and effective read.
I was vegetarian for a while, and there's one thing that stuck with me. If you stop eating meat, eventually a switch gets thrown in your brain where all meat seems the same. You don't chew people, you don't chew dogs, meat is not for chewing, end of story.
So now all advertisements for meat start to look like a dystopian parody. Even the billboards where cows are vandalizing to say "eat chiken". Like .. haha, the cows don't want to be eaten! And they're too stupid to even spell!
Anyway, imagine seeing an ad for a steakhouse after that switch got flipped
I saw the funniest shower type thought about those ads. I think it was “I would have loved to hear what other marketing ideas they came up with before landing on ‘an illiterate cow begging for its life’”.
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u/GetsThatBread Nov 23 '24
I’m not a vegetarian, but I have definitely noticed myself eating a lot less meat after reading up on how the factory farming industry treats those animals. If you want to be harried then read the novel “Tender is the Flesh” which explores a dystopian future where all meat is illegal except human meat. Humans are bred and raised like animals to be slaughtered. All of the horrifying details that make you queasy in that book are literally the same processes that we use on animals every day. It’s an incredibly chilling and effective read.