What was I thinking?

While I was at work yesterday, I was browsing the web.

I found myself looking at Peta's site, which is awe inspiring to say the least. In between calls, I watched their video "Meat your Meat" and I was appalled and sickened.

For a long time I haven't eaten meat, from time to time I have eaten a little fish, and I have worn leather. I had no idea that the choices that I was making on a day to day basis were making monstrosities like this continue.

I remember when I was a teen, I was passionate about environmental issues, animal rights and to a point fairness in life. As I have lived a bit longer, I have taken my eye off the ball, and I have been giving companies my money who just don't give a shit about making anything else but money.

Seeing their site has really made me remember why I chose to be a vegetarian. Someway between choosing vegetarianism and now, I had forgotten the reasons. I've been lazy about who and what I am.

Because of having seen Peta's site, I will be much more careful about my power as a consumer. I will not buy milk, or eggs or cheese. I will not buy leather or suede anything. I will do my hardest to take cruelty to animals out of my diet and way of living. I will stop consuming animal products and I will ensure that anything that I buy from this day onwards is as cruelty free as I can find.

Now, I do own leather goods, and I just refuse to throw them away. Not because I don't feel like it, it's just that I have already done the dead as a consumer, and lets face it, I'm not going to throw away perfectly functional clothes and shoes. As a member of this species I will act more responsibly.

I would like to say thanks for the people at Peta for making me remember about cruelty. Please do go and look at their site. www.goveg.com or www.peta.com.

It really is important that you take a look.