Trouble dealing with the truth about animals?

Question by <3 Just Married <3: Trouble dealing with the truth about animals?
Meat eating people: before you troll actually look at what I am saying. I value these animals’ lives and I don’t need you to get all defensive because of your own insecurities.

I used to eat meat..used to love it. I would eat double cheeseburgers, bmts at subway..lots of meat. I was never fat despite the disgustingly high calories I was eating, so I ate it as long as I thought I could get away with it.

My parents encouraged it and told me I needed it for protein. I never thought it was abnormal, and I didn’t even see it as the flesh of an animal anymore; I was so conditioned just to see food.

My sister went vegetarian at a pretty young age and I was immature and ignorant back then and so I poked fun at her decision. She never had any great arguments for why she made this choice so like the majority of society at the time, I thought it was weird. In a way this reinforced my decision to continue eating it. It was normal. It was normal for us to mass breed animals for food. After all, we needed meat to survive, right?

At age 18 after I had left my parents house I started to learn the truth about what’s going on. That we are being mass conditioned to think it’s completely normal and healthy to eat the tortured and slaughtered corpse of a living being that wanted desperately nothing more than to live just like us.

I realized that it was the meat industry being shoved on us and especially the animals, NOT the vegetarians/vegans shoving their beliefs down people’s throats like I previously believed.

Vegetarians/vegans fight for the innocent who have no voice..meat is advertised everywhere, even in children’s cartoons etc. You still think this isn’t brainwashing? If slaughterhouses aren’t so bad than how come they are making it illegal to film in them and how come slaughterhouse footage isn’t on TV?

Meat eaters get angry when a vegetarian/vegan “attacks” them, telling them the truth about what’s really going on. They don’t even actually listen to what the vegetarian/vegan has to say, rather, they just hear “I’m vegetarian/vegan I’m better than you!” when the vegetarian/vegan is actually saying, “Look! Innocent sentient beings are being tortured and murdered just so people can stuff their faces please do something!!”

So anyway..I since went vegan and have been happier and healthier than ever. HOWEVER..

I’m completely disturbed and disgusted by what is going on on this planet. When I see an advertisement for a meat or worse, have to sit with people eating meat I secretly get sick to my stomach..I don’t just see meat/food anymore, I see the death and destruction of this world.

It has disturbed me so much that I have flashbacks and nightmares about meat eating. I have been vegan about a year now and I would like to know if there are other vegans that feel the same way. Will I eventually be able to deal with it better? It’s really hard for me knowing the truth, but I would never ever EVER go back to eating corpses, breast milk from another mammal, chicken periods, and bee vomit.

I never attack meat eaters unless they attack me first about what I am eating, but I can’t say I’ve never made a sickly face seeing it. It really makes me ill. If meat eaters can’t deal with a vegan at the table simply because she looks at the corpses they are eating weird, maybe it is them who feel insecure about their own selves..THEY are the ones with the problem.

I would just really like some support from other vegans. How did you deal with the truth? Did it bother you a lot at first? Does it get easier over time? I really want to become an animal rights activist and make up for what I did to the animals in my ignorant days.
Smells Like New Screen Names, you prove my point 100% 1000% 10000% you didn’t even actually listen to what I was REALLY saying, instead you immediately got defensive because you are eating these things and don’t want to be told you are wrong. I was a meat eater the first 18 years of my life and then I woke up to what was really going on. I used to get insulted just like you..not paying attention to what the person was actually saying and instead seeing that they were trying to be better than me. Here’s a test: When I say “Billions of benign and innocent sentient beings are being tortured and slaughtered to feed you..please stand up for the voiceless and do something!” What do you see? If you still see, “I’m vegan, therefore I’m arrogant and better than you and pushing my beliefs on you.” then you NEED to wake up.
Silly meat trolls. What I just said had absolutely ZERO to do with PETA so I’m not even going to read that, also things most certainly ARE going on, and I can see them going on each and every day. I don’t believe ANY animals should be killed for food, “humane” or no, because they all want to live just as we do and to act like we will die if we don’t have meat in the 21st century is absolutely insane. I’m not even reading comments by trolls such as you, I really pity you, it’s really sad not to have empathy and compassion for all living beings. It’s easy to sit and type that while YOU AREN’T THE VICTIM. You try living in a prison your entire life, just to end up eaten by some fat disgusting freak who doesn’t even think of you as alive. People like you sicken me, associating all vegans with PETA and to even DARE call vegan propaganda when you turn on the television to meat advertisements all day long is unforgivable.
To me there is no humane slaughter, farm lady, so your argument is automatically invalid. I am talking about ALL carnage, factory farmed or not. To me and many others it’s wrong and sickening.

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