Vegetarians worst nightmare
I had to post this becouse Im still reeling frome the shock of it all. I had to attend a function with my husband last night, a catered affair at a local museum. I had no idea what kind of food would be served but when they wheeled a whole pig complete with the head and legs and tail attatched, lying on it's side, on a board, skinned with fat dripping off of it, I seriously swooned for a minute. Im telling you I could not help the feeling of loathing and utter disgust!!! That poor animal, I felt so bad, like crying to see it laying under heat lamps like that. I wanted to get the hell out of there so fast but my husbands job is a stake and I had to stay for him even though he was feeling the same way. How horrid to serve an amimal like that, Ive never seen such a sight. The only thing we could do was get a table as far away from it and just know that our diets do not support such cruel practices. Seeing meat and seeing people eat meat usually doesn't bother me, but to see people eat a carcass like that was just shameful. I wondered if anyone has had any bad experiences sneak up on you like that. I hope I never have to see that again! I kept thinking of the organic apple orchard down the road, they cherish pigs becouse they eat the apples that fall to the ground infested with a certain kind of larve and then they keep diseases out of the apple trees because the larve can't crawl back up into the apple tree and infest it again. How useful pigs can be!
Wow that seems like quite a unpleasant situation!
To bad you can't talk upfront with the person who threw the event.
Disgusting! I would have been so uncomfortable, too. I have no trouble with other people eating meat, but seeing it like that... I would've lost my appetite.
yuck. :'(
Yesterday I had to take my son to the grand opening of Cabelas..which I assumed was similar to LL Bean...I was very mistaken!
There were dead animals all over the place. Hundreds of heads on the walls, giant fish on the wall, a mountain in the middle of the store covered in animals in various dramatic poses and a whole set up of African animals as well...rhino, antelope, lions, ox, buffalo...and local wolves, bears, badgers, deer and many more, omg I wanted to scream or cry ...It was so disturbing...I just got out of there as quickly as possible and waited in the car.
Wow that seems like quite a unpleasant situation!
To bad you can't talk upfront with the person who threw the event.
It's more than unpleasant. Much, much more than unpleasant.
once at my school for some made up event/holiday (western night? or something) they had a mechanical bull and a roast pig (or whatever the pig with the apple is called). I didn't go because I didn't want to see, and several people on campus were upset about it (not all vegetarian either!)
I don't really know though... I don't see the justification of an omni being upset about it; it just realistically depicts who you're eating rather than hiding it from you. If omnis have trouble eating pork literally torn off a dead pig, then maybe they shouldn't be eating animals at all :D
I would hate to have to be in a room with the body though. I guess the only constructive thing I can think about it is to turn all that anger/sadness/queasiness into action, like go leaflet the next day somewhere since you'll be inspired (if you do that sort of thing regularly anyway).
On the other hand, sometimes I'm a little peeved when vegetarians (or esp. "free range"/"organic" people) turn down my leaflet saying "oh, i'm vegetarian anyway, so i don't have to see it." I see how I'd think "thank god I'm exempt now from being exposed to that), but on the other hand none of us are. We're still in a society that promotes it, and everyone (nearly) around us does it, so we're not exempt from knowing about sweatshops in China just because we make our own clothing (ok, I don't). Plus, half the booklets are about eggs/dairy...
Ok, ranting now. Anyway, at least you got to find a table from as far away as possible! It could have been worse... you could've been late and had to sit right next to it :( I can only hope by putting the body out there that some omnis are made queasy too and start second-guessing their choices...
I feel your pain! I grew up in the Midwest, where "hog roast" is synonymous (sp?) with "fabulous bash". The first one I attended was a public "do" to raise funds for some civic organization's beautification project. I was about 15, and remember seeing a couple who were friends with my folks and brought their two kids, boy 4, girl about 7. The little girl thought it was your regulation potluck, but when she saw the whole pig laid out on the centre table she started choking and had to leave the building--not just the room. She wasn't doing the attention-getting "oh gross, I'm gonna puke" gag--she was actually choking as if her throat had closed off. I went out to see if she was OK and take her a glass of water and she was crying and saying, "Mommy, I can't go back in there!"
Out of the mouths of babes.
That is really awful!
I had a similar topic way back and my worst veggie nightmare is that when we had to rent our house out before we moved in, our rental agency rented the house out to a couple of HOOTERS MANAGERS! They trashed the place, the kitchen was all greasy and I don't even want to imagine the number of wings that graced my countertops. I still wont eat stuff that landed bare on my counter, but we are in the process of replacing them so then I won't have to be such a freak! ::) My house is ALMOST Hooter-free, 2 years later! ;D