2:50 pm I just read the most disturbing article�It's a story from the washington post about animal cruelty and the breaking of slaughterhouse regulations for humane killing�I threw up after I read it�I've been a meat-eater my whole life�I guess I justify it by saying that I grew up in iowa, and no one in iowa says "no thanks" to meat�I have always been an animal lover, even animals who aren't cute and fuzzy, but have never actually let myself think of the meat on my plate as an actual animal�cow, chicken, turkey, these are all animals I have eaten over and over and over again�but, I do know that whenever my parents tried to do something different, like cooking venison or duck or some other animal that I clearly knew was an animal, I couldn't' eat a bite�now, that doesn't really make sense, but that's how it was�in the past couple of years, I haven't been a huge meat-eater, but there are times when I have a burger, a steak or a chicken sandwich�after reading the article that I just read, and after feeling the feeling in my gut that I do now, I don't know if I can keep doing that�the thought of any animal touching my fork makes me want to throw up again�I'm nauseous, shaky and teary after reading what I read�I can't get the picture of live cows hanging from chains in the ceilings of slaughter houses�I can't stop imagining them sliding down the conveyer belts alive, conscious and kicking�I am appalled and sick to my stomach and unable to stop seeing cow eyes staring, pleading�how am I going to feel when my mom tries to serve the easter lamb? .