I Feel Like Grumbling.....

This afternoon I took the girls to the Film Festivals Bazaar at a local hall in town.
We had a great look around and thought it was a very well represented cross section of conscientious associations, businesses and causes.
On our way out I stopped to peruse the Eat Vegan table.
I am not sure if it was an organization or just a couple of people who like to inform people about healthy dietary options, either way I left ready to battle.
After looking at their pamphlets, a grand array of topics from milk, feedlots, GMO's and such I asked what their stance on home raised meat as apposed to the feed lots they were so rightly against.
I knew what may be said but sometimes I like to stir the pot.
Pot was stirred.
One stood and came into my personal space and asked if the kids knew about what was going on.
So I questioned her if she meant if my girls helped raise and care for, befriend and nurture these animals, all the while knowing that one day they will be on the dinner plate? Yes.
She said loudly enough so my girls would not miss it, if they see them get slaughtered, do they know what actually happens to them?
So I tightly corralled in the girls in my arms and asked if she meant did my girls know that the chickens we raise get shocked and their thought slit open and then dunked in hot water to remove the feather? said yes they do!

OK maybe I went a bit far but heh I felt I should prove a point.
She backed off a tad and was a bit struck that indeed my girls did know.

I get it most people do not have the time energy of land resource to raise their own meat, let alone allow their kids to see them get slaughtered, if they were to choose to, and then packaged and put them proudly in the freezer.
I also know most people have no clue, or simply care to ignore the reality, about feedlots, and all the horrific handling's of meat that is sold at the local supermarkets.
We call our meat Happy Meat and when I told her that she scoffed and turned away.

This is when the younger one sensed she should get involved and said that she doesn't eat what can have a choice.
Ok If I had the time, and I didn't with two kids wrestling to go, I would have gotten into that one.

Choices!!?

So does this young woman think that the Sea Warrior shirt she was wearing was made her an advocate for choice.

I should have asked if she had any sugar today, sugar that was grown in another country in cruel slave like conditions, or was it sugar made from GMO beets.
Did she washed her hair, teeth, clothes, dishes with stuff loaded with laurel sulphates and nasty unpronouncable ingredients that came from foreign places that has travelled here many 100's of miles in big trucks, powered by fossil fuels.
Did she eat an organic banana? Follow that trail.
Or anything with corn? Or cotton, or soy???
What does she travel in, how does she heat her house, does she flush a toilet, does she have electricity or a cell phone.

Choices!!

Unless you live in a cave unfortunately many choices are made for you.
Yes we can make choices but it very hard to live the ethical life we do deeply desire when their is no accountability from governments to help us make informed choices, when we are all tied into a system that fails those who want to be free of the machine.
I applaud their intentions but do not attack me about my diet and lifestyle because I choose to give my children a choice.

It really through them when I said I ate RAW.

I allow my girls to make informed and educated choices from an early age.
I give them the age appropriate information they can absorb and they can go from there.
They understand why I choose to eat Raw and they try it often but they know they enjoy to eat meat and they can say they know exactly where it comes from.
They know where their food comes from and they help grow it and understand the process.

I am out of steam now but I feel trapped sometimes and I love to debate and have meaningful conversations, even through in a few conspiracy theories but do not get in my face about my choices and I won't about yours.
Thank you.