Naivety

Over the weekend I started reading this book called Eating Animals by Jonathan Foer. I'm not too far into it yet, but have learned so much already. At one point, at my parent's house, I decided to show my mother a page that shows just how big a living space a chicken gets, "free roaming" or not. I couldn't fit my foot in it. My mother looked at it, and I saw her face change. I thought I was making a good point for her, but then she looked at the cover of the book and said, "Oh, nope, I don't want to hear it," and shoved the book back in my hands. I said, "Mom, that doesn't mean it won't still be happening, " and she said again, "I don't want to hear it," and continued watching her television show.

Why are so many people like this? My husband and I talked about it later on, and we don't understand what goes on in people's heads when they think like that. Do they think it will stop just because they don't know about it, that it isn't really happening? I don't think so. I think it's because if they actually know, they will feel bad when they eat meat, and they don't want to feel bad when they eat meat, they want to be happy when they do, because meat is so good and savory and delicious, who wants to feel bad when they consume something that tasty???

If more people actually said, when shown facts like I tried to show my mother, "huh, that's interesting and horrible, tell me more," then we'd make a good improvement. But people just want to wallow in their own naivety and not do their part for the Earth and its creatures AND themselves since vegetarianism is a healthy life choice to make.

It is my hope that these people who don't care enough to look at the facts about how bad meat is for you will some day learn, some day WANT to learn, about how to make a difference in their lives and the lives of animals.