All my healthy eating was became null at work today. They provided all the ingredients for a basic milkshake. It isn't difficult for me to take advantage of such opportunity for gluttony. Let's just say I started lunch with an Oreo milkshake, enough for two, that I so selflessly shared with another associate...but kind of begrudgingly. Then I read some more Eating Animals over a avocado (going bad) and tomato on whole wheat with veggie chips (by now, the flavor is getting old).
One of the co-workers saw the book and mentioned his fear of what is could be which caused another co-worker to exclaim that "Animals are here for us to eat. It is written in a book". It took her repeating that a few times amidst me trying to explain what the book was about and the other co-worker saying who knows what, that it soaked in. She meant the bible and she seriously believes animals are here for our sustenance. I am a meat eater, I have always have been, my favorite meal is a plate of ribs...But a runner up in slow cooked beans and cornbread. When I balked at what the co-worker was saying she asked what would we eat if we didn't have meat. My brain officially hurt at the ignorance.
So while I love meat and I have yet to commit to not eating animals, that kind of entitlement and lack of awareness about the world surely made me see where I stand ideologically. A thought came to the fore while in that moment following that standout quote from my co-worker. We can say these creatures who are not in control are weaker than us and because of that they can be deemed prey. To ask for mercy from this being capable of higher thought, if that is not possible, then what would happen if we became the ones deemed weak? Begging for mercy, surely that is what we would try to do, to reason our way to salvation, but it would be just as much a waste of time if that stronger force was as ignorant as us. Recipe for nightmares there.
One of the co-workers saw the book and mentioned his fear of what is could be which caused another co-worker to exclaim that "Animals are here for us to eat. It is written in a book". It took her repeating that a few times amidst me trying to explain what the book was about and the other co-worker saying who knows what, that it soaked in. She meant the bible and she seriously believes animals are here for our sustenance. I am a meat eater, I have always have been, my favorite meal is a plate of ribs...But a runner up in slow cooked beans and cornbread. When I balked at what the co-worker was saying she asked what would we eat if we didn't have meat. My brain officially hurt at the ignorance.
So while I love meat and I have yet to commit to not eating animals, that kind of entitlement and lack of awareness about the world surely made me see where I stand ideologically. A thought came to the fore while in that moment following that standout quote from my co-worker. We can say these creatures who are not in control are weaker than us and because of that they can be deemed prey. To ask for mercy from this being capable of higher thought, if that is not possible, then what would happen if we became the ones deemed weak? Begging for mercy, surely that is what we would try to do, to reason our way to salvation, but it would be just as much a waste of time if that stronger force was as ignorant as us. Recipe for nightmares there.
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