The holiday season is when humans celebrate their dominance of animals and nature. They put turkey carcasses and hams on their tables. They cut down living trees so they can put them in their homes for a matter of days or weeks. Then they unceremoniously toss them to the curb. How much of this sort of death and destruction occurs during the holiday season?
It's too easy to be cruel to animals. Meat is everywhere. It's advertised. It's acceptable to be cruel: especially if you're not getting blood on your hands. Meat is too far removed from the animal it once was. Perhaps they should put pictures of lambs on lamb meat in stores and on menus in restaurants.
A coworker showed me pictures of 2 dead deer her friends had murdered. She was so happy about it. Also at work, a customer asked another customer, with a smile on his face, if he had killed deer, because he was buying a freezer. He had killed deer. A customer was buying a squirrel trap to catch a "dirty, rotten, stinking" (definitely his words, not mine. I love squirrels.) squirrel, which he thought was funny. I shudder to think what he would do to a squirrel if he caught one.
At work, we have a wall of cruelty, that's covered with gift cards to restaurants that serve meat: Burger King, Red Lobster, steakhouses, etc.
I don't have much of a reason to live. At work, I'm surrounded by people who think nothing of being cruel to animals, whether directly or indirectly. They talk about the meat they enjoy with smiles on their faces; they never let me forget it. At home, I have to hear my loud, shitty neighbors. Whenever I am, I'm always in pain and tired. I've had a runny nose for weeks, if not months. The skin on my hands is dry and cracking open as a result of the cold weather. On the way to work, in a blizzard, I lost control of my car twice. I'm lucky I didn't hit anything.
