In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

Never in a million years could I imagine you advocating vandalism or being a jerk like that about the fur coats.

As for the billboards, I'm still not quite convinced that the shock value and guilt that they seem to produce in people is actually helping the cause.

I wonder if they've ever done a cost/benefit analysis to see how effective those ads are, or if it would even be possible to do so. I remember reading many years ago about a pro-life campaign in which they sent a mailing with graphic images of aborted body parts to certain areas of a large city. They claimed that abortion rates plummeted for a certain period of time immediately following the mass mailing. I have no idea how accurate that was, of course, but it was interesting.

It's still very hard for me to view those images. After all these years, it still gets to me.

Oh me too! I get physically ill, sick to my stomach, and want to vomit. I'll have a headache for the rest of the day, and just feel overall very down, like a black cloud hanging over me. All for viewing 1 minute of a cow getting killed. I sometimes force myself to watch it, because I have to screen it before posting it somewhere. Like, I watched those 2 that I posted a few days ago. At great cost. My day is shot afterwards.

It's precisely because it does affect me so much, that I believe it's effective to others. How can anyone see it and not be affected?

The problem is, that most won't even watch it.