I’ve been seeing a lot
of videos lately where children start crying when their parents explain that
the food on their plate was a living animal once. Seeing the emotions on the
faces of these children is something worth seeing. It is so raw and full of
emotion that it makes me angry. Not angry at the children, but at society who doesn’t
believe in explaining where most animal products come from.
From a small age we are
taught that we are eating meat, milk, eggs and fish. We make the connection,
but not entirely. If you showed a child what the animal went through to end up
on the plate, they will end up crying. They will ask “why?” And why they
shouldn’t. Children are brainwashed from a young age, they are told the truth
without explanation. I recently made the connection. I realised that the meat, dairy, fish and
eggs come from animals. Those animals are kept in dreadful places and fed just
to serve as food for humans. This process
doesn’t even need to be explain, the mere thought that the living animal
outside can end up on the plate is enough to make a child’s think.
If you tell a child and
they still want to eat meat, that’s fine. But not telling them at all seems
like a lie. As an Au pair I make meals for the child. Most evenings I would
make bacon or chicken to eat. He would sit and enjoy it. I would think; “does
this child know he is eating a dead animal?” It bothers me, because it feels
like I’m part of the lie. That I’m lying to him every time a place a animal
product in front of him. He is already a part of a society he doesn’t even know
about.
This is where the sad
part comes in – I can’t tell him. I cannot tell the child the entire truth that
is the job of his parents. Will they tell him and help him see the connection? Probably
not. This is the problem; if more parents could at least give their child a
choice before deciding for them it would help a lot. It would help the child and
his or her future. It will help the animals and the plant where the child needs
to grow up in.
I’m not saying parents
are wrong, I’m saying society is. We all get brainwashed by media about what is
healthy and not. We also pass the habits of the previous generation onto the
new generations. How can anyone grow and evolve if they can’t make decisions of
their own?
I wish my parents had
told me and given me the option of eating animal products. I don’t blame them
that they didn’t, because that was the way they were raised, and that is the
society they were part of. Everyone deserves to know what animals go through
and everyone deserves to decide how they want to respond to it. My way of responding
was veganism. I wish I had become a
vegan sooner, but I’m glad that I finally got to this point. The decision was
mine and making it has already influenced so many aspects of my life is a
positive way.
Felicia
xoxo
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