Animal Rights & Stuff

I could not pull up my blog from my house yesterday, don't know if the strong winds the other day blew a tower down or something? My internet was super slow and that was highly irritating.
Anyways, I brought the Tatiana show over to Coffee Roasters this afternoon. My make up artist is here, hair stylist, personal assistant, PR person - I roll like J LO, sans Casper of course. I am just sitting around looking cute & casual, writing my blog, posing for an occasional pic with a fan and writing autographs.
LOL!



Have you read the story about the farm worker caught on camera abusing the turkeys at a Butterball turkey kill factor? More workers are being investigated.
You might not think it's a big deal to torture animals before they get slaughtered for consumption, hopefully you are a compassionate person and do care.
My eyes are full of tears and my hands are shaking right now when I am typing this because I feel upset and sad because of that. I do not eat turkey.
Those birds live a hellish life before they end up slaughtered. Sure the meat is tasty, I've had turkey before - until I started caring.
I am sure that the conditions for the factory/farm workers are bad and that they are underpaid and overworked. I feel bad for the people that work in factories.
But it is not the animals fault! If anything, the animals are the ones suffering the most. Animal abuse and torture is NEVER right. Would you feel ok eating a cow, pig, chicken or turkey if you knew somebody tortured it, made it suffer and scared it right before it died and eventually ended up at your plate? I hope not.
It is easier NOT to care, I know. Ignorance IS bliss. I have my own problems and things that I am sad and worried about. Like right now I am not at all motivated to go to work because it feels meaningless and boring. I have an awful mortgage to deal with. I have bad days. But at the same time, I have to care about things that are not right. And I can't stand animal abuse. So if you can, make at least one day or even better two days a week a meat free day, if you are a meat eater.
Look at the bigger picture. The world is about everybody and everything, not only YOU. Or me.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/butterball-farm-worker-guilty-animal-cruelty/story?id=17098746

Since it's Monday and the beginning of the work week for many, it can also be the beginning of something else. Meat Free Mondays! I think that everybody, if they eat meat, should strive for AT LEAST one or two days of no meat each week. Why not? It's healthier for YOU and the planet. Nobody needs to eat meat every day, many people falsely think they do because they have been bombarded with propaganda about that since childhood. So stop being so selfish and cut out the meat at least once or twice a week, preferably more.
Paul McCartney was involved in starting the Meat Free Monday movement and he is also a vegetarian (or a vegan, I'm not exactly sure), this is when he decided to become one, "Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, ‘I am killing him — all for the passing pleasure it brings me.’ And something inside me clicked. I realized as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me."

Anyways, today I went to the dump with all my recyclabes. Went to Kaladi too.



Coffee and Kotex, what else does a girl need? Besides some Prada purses and some really nice fall fashion boots........of course!
Last night it was so windy here that I worried that some of the trees around my house would fall over and land on the house. I guess Fall is arriving with the winds. That's my philosophy on that.
I got lots crossed out on my to do list yesterday and last night, I stayed up until 6 AM this morning because I couldn't sleep.
I might go camping this weekend, if the weather permits, I don't want to go camping if it rains non stop, some rain is ok. Better with no rain at all.

So.....what do you think.....one meat free day a week or two? Is that possible? I think it is! 🙂