Vegetarian Views: Venice Beach, CA
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WOMEN:
Interviewer: Would you kill the animals you eat?
Woman: No I wouldn’t, but I don’t have to kill to eat meat, so I eat it. And I don’t see that as murder.
*Little girl
Cerissa: I became a vegetarian because of the pictures I saw at Interviewer booth. It made me sick, I can’t eat these poor animals.
*Middle class woman
MEN:
Interviewer: Would you kill that cow you’re eating?
Boy: No, but I’d let McDonald’s do it for me.
Interviewer: So what if McDonald’s didn’t do the killing for you? Then what would you do?
Boy: I’d let Burger King do it.
Interviewer: No… c’mon now, stop copping out. What if no one would do it and you had to do it yourself?
Boy: Then I wouldn’t do it. But McDonald’s and Burger King kill the cows for me and it’s good… here want some?
*Hispanic, lower class boys
RELIGION:
Mr. Born again: According to the bible, Man has dominion over all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air and all of the fishes of the sea.
Interviewer:What makes you think dominion means domination? Dominion really means companionship and working together. Although I do not have much faith in the bible, the earliest scriptures tell us that plant foods were to be the only food for humans.
Mr. Born again: But the Disciples ate meat and Jesus gave out fish to the people.
*Middle class male
DENIAL:
Mr. Macho hunter: I’ve worked in a slaughterhouse. They don’t drag out the deaths of the animals, it’s quick and painless and I’m also a hunter and I wouldn’t kill anything that I wouldn’t eat. I do not believe in suffering, I’m a good shot and the animals I have killed never knew what hit em’.
*Middle class male
