kanina i was sent to the grocery by my mom to buy a kilo of shrimp. we have visitors coming over tomorrow and my mom was thinking of serving chili shrimp. i don't cook, and so buying ingredients for a certain dish is not really one of my favorite activities. you can just imagine how i stood there transfixed and confused in front of schools of shrimp squirming inside a large aquarium. i didn't know you buy them alive and kicking, literally. oh those poor things. i watched closely while the grocery boy mercilessly scooped them with a fishing net and tossed them into a plastic container. you should have seen them run (or swim) and fight for their lives. some of them even went as far as jumping over the glass edge. those who managed to escape were left to die on the floor, of course.
there were still signs of life even as i was driving home from the grocery. from the driver's seat i could still hear the wriggling and the twisting and the gasping for air. it's almost heartbreaking. for a while i thought the vegan principles border on the extreme, even cultish to some extent. but when i saw how those sea creatures fight for their existence, it made me wonder if nature really meant it to be that way. it made me think if animals are really meant for human consumption. parang ang unfair lang. the rule of the game is survival of the fittest, pero not every creature is equipped with an equal capacity to fight.
kung sa bagay, nung kumakain naman sila ng seaweeds (or whatever it is that shrimps eat), hindi naman sila inirereklamo. siguro nga ganyan lang talaga ang buhay.
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