So I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat any animals because of moral reasons. I think it is wrong and cruel for animals to be killed just for people to eat. If I hunted animals, if I bought meat, or if I cooked meat (for someone else), should I still be considered a vegetarian? I don't think so, because I'm still participating in the industry. I may not be actually eating the meat, but I still don't think I could be considered a vegetarian if I did those things.
So you're a vegetarian. That probably means that you eat some form(s) of dairy. Milk (the liquid that comes from a cow which feeds her young), cheese (often comes from milk, which comes from a cow), eggs (the ovum of many animals...what do you think a woman's eggs would taste like? nomnomnom)...Do you chew gum? Eat candy? Although there may not be meaty flesh or a bone in a stick of gum, there are animal derivitive products in most gums. Do you use eyeshadow? Did you know that eyeshadow is usually made from fish scales? Do you use conditioner? Most conditioner is made from animal fat. Do you use any Gillette products? Did you know that to test their products, they rub the product in the eyes of rabbits to see the results? Ever ridden in a car with leather seats? Owned any leather, suede, cashmere, silk, angora, down [comforter, jacket, pillow], pearls? No? So you wear all cotton - did you know that conventionally grown cotton is the crop that uses the most heavy applications of pesticides of any crop worldwide? But it's okay because instead of killing cows and sheep you're just killing a shitload of bugs...Oh, is your place of residence painted? Most paints use tallow, a fatty animal acid. Do you drive a car or vehicle of any type? A car needs oil to run, and guess what's in oil...glycerin...which is in damn near everything, including toothpaste, lotions, most household cleaners, and in most types of "XR" (extended release) types of medications. Do you eat anything with sugar? Sugar is usually run over animal bones...
Therefore, if you participate in any of the above (a highly limited list, I may add) in your eyes, you would not be considered a vegetarian.
Trying to avoid eating, consuming, using, and or being around animal products is virtually IMPOSSIBLE.
So you see eating, consuming, using an animal product as bad? Well, you're probably guilty, or "bad", or you're "cheating on your vegan/vegetarian friends" or cheating on your oath to yourself and all the cute cuddly animals of the world when you use an animal product...right?
where am I going with this you ask?
Humans were not meant to be a monogamous bunch. In fact, we are programmed to be the
exact opposite of monogamous. Adultery has been documented in every human culture studied.
If monogamy is such a natural state, a "good thing..." why are so many people driven to cheat? There's a huge problem when an expectation of absolute fidelity is placed on marriage. There's a lot of [unnecessary] suffering between couples who have unnecessary expectations of what life is going to be like once their married. Does the wife hope and assume that her husband is automatically no longer going to be attracted to other women? Will he never look at another woman's ass again as she walks by? Do his animalistic instincts (the instinct that men are born with to spread their seed and reproduce to help their genes carry on in this world) just go away?
Although long-term bonding may come naturally to our species, that doesn't eliminate the desire for variety. One can still maintain a long term bond with somebody and still be able to have sex with other people. Couples are led to believe that waning sexual passion in enduring marriages or sexual interest in anyone but their partner shows a failed relationship, when in reality these things often signify nothing more than the fact that
we are Homo sapiens. Monogamy is NOT NATURAL for human beings. Humans are arguably the most sexual species on earth. Our bodies, minds and sexual habits all reflect a highly sexual primate. Research from primatology, anthropology, anatomy and psychology points to the same conclusion: A nonpossessive, gregarious sexuality was the human norm until the rise of agriculture and private property just 10,000 years ago, about 5 percent of anatomically modern humans' existence on Earth.
The human body tells the same story. Men's testicles are far larger than those of any monogamous or polygynous primate, hanging vulnerably outside the body where cooler temperatures help preserve standby sperm cells for multiple ejaculations. Men sport the longest, thickest primate penis, as well as an embarrassing tendency to reach orgasm when the woman is just getting warmed up. These are all strong indications of so-called sperm competition in our species' past.
Women's breasts, which are instinctually desired by men because of their size (the bigger the breasts, the more she can feed our offspring), woman's hips (bigger hips, easier for breeding and birthing) impossible-to-ignore cries of sexual delight, or "female copulatory vocalization", and capacity for multiple orgasms also validate prehistoric promiscuity.
But we're not apes, you may say...but we are, in fact. Homo sapiens is one of four African great apes, along with chimps, bonobos and gorillas.
But we have the power to choose how to live!...you may say...This is true.
Just as we can choose to be vegans/vegetarians, we can decide to lead sexually monogamous lives. But folks, remember...just because you've chosen to refrain from eating meat, it's utterly natural to yearn for an occasional bacon cheeseburger.
