A wise girl knows her limits.
A great girl knows she has none.

Last semester when I watched "Meet Your Meat", I couldn't eat meat for nearly a month. Even the faintest smell of beef, pork, or chicken would make me lose my appetite. When I watched Fast Food Nation, I got that same feeling again. It's probably one of the most convincing films I've watched, one that sticks to me for a long time and actually has an effect on my life. My first reaction to all this was... "disgusting". The two realities that bother me the most are the treatment of animals and the Mexican workers. I seriously don't know which one of them have it the worst.

I hate to think that every time I'm at a restaurant eating a beef burger or a chicken breast, having the most wonderful time with not a care in the world, on the other side there are poor animals who never had a chance to live a real life, were tortured, and killed mercilessly. There are also the workers who have no choice but to endure slaying, skinning, cutting, and cleaning. As if dealing with raw meat, guts and gore wasn't enough, these workers have to be worried about their safety every second. It must be horrible knowing that one clumsy slip could lead to a missing finger, arm, or leg.

Although I can't deny that I don't eat meat, I really want to do something for their cause after watching this film. I don't want to live in a world where people are treated like worthless machines, and an animal's fate is to suffer from the day they're born.