Tonight is my grandmother's 74th birthday. A total of 10 family members will come to my parent's house to celebrate. If all goes according to plan, we will eat, drink, be merry and my grandma will begin this new year with joy. My mom is currently cooking up a storm of vegan topping for tacos, which will be delicious. But, other family members are bringing taco meat. A part of me is somewhat fine with this; the omnivores of the O'Connor and Nesbit clan are expecting it. But after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, I'm not sure how joyous I will be observing most of my family consuming this taco meat. What animals are killed for taco meat anyway? I will probably be silent, not sharing my disgust at eating animals. And what will that accomplish? Will it be wrong of me to stay silent and allow reasonable people who I adore eat unreasonable food? How does that give justice to the eaten animal? Or is it wrong of me to voice what I know, make others feel uncomfortable, and put an obvious damper on the party spirit? I don't want to do either. I want to do both. I want to do what is right, but I'm not sure what that is.
It is difficult to know what is the better thing to do in the scheme of things. Hopefully I'll have a better handle of situations like this over the course of my lifetime.
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