Hello Readers,
I have gone back to being a vegetarian. This time, not for cost or health reasons, but for ethical reasons. I have previously been of the opinion that animals do not possess consciousness. I am now of the mind that animals do, in fact, have some very limited form of consciousness. In which case, they experience their own deaths, when murdered. So eating meat has lost its enjoyment for me. Alas! But the health benefits for me are icing on the cake--pun intended!
UPDATE: So once again, I could not do completely without meat, but my compromise is that now I am what is known as a "pescetarian": I will only eat vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy, eggs, and fish. Fish and seafood are the only meat I will eat. I don't eat mammals or poultry. This decision, again, is ethical, as fish and seafood have brains that are so primitive that they probably cannot possess self-awareness, although they might be aware of what is in front of them. In contrast, most mammals probably can be self-aware, and maybe some birds too. To be a mammal, which humans are, and to eat mammals, is pretty horrible, honestly, and I say this as someone who did, for the majority of my life.
