Comments from Visitors to VegCamp 2006

This page includes just a few of the many comments we received during Burning Man 2006.

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Thank you for reminding us of who we are and what we do as humans in this giant food chain harnessed by our own mechanisms for eating bacon and eggs!
- Cynthia

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I love VegCamp. They need to be here and educate all the Burners. Thank you.
- Megan G.

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I loved the film. Absolute must for everybody. Deserves more attention. I would love to see more videos of the same concept.
- Alex G.

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Bottomline, I have never seen the suffering... I just consumed without knowing the systematic destruction of other beings. Get this, they fear pain just like you or I. Imagine someone cutting your nose or hand off. Imagine you living in a metal cage, so confined you can't even turn around.
Thank you for letting me see visually my impact by consuming meat. My heart hurts to see this and will heal by my new commitment to go from consuming meat 2-3 times per day to 2 times per week.
- Joe M.

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I was raised in the Connecticut countryside, raising cows, chicken and pigs. I also hunt for my own food. Even though this video is showing the most extreme conditions of cruelty, it is actually happening around the world. This video makes me think that I could go without meat and still satisfy my hungry stomach. It presents another point of view without screaming it in my face and brings Burning Man's community together in the same way everything else here does.
- Fitzgerald C.

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My heart sang when I saw the video message about animal cruelty. The plight of the animals in this day and age is horrible and the story must be told. Burning Man is a place of truth, freedom and non-judgement, where all beings should be free to live without harm. This message is very fitting.
- Lisa M.

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This video has made me become vegan. Thank you.
- Summer

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This camp/video is very important to make others aware of the atrocities of eating meat. By placing this installment at the centre of the camp, hopefully, the public will be more attuned to potential health dangers and animal cruelty.
- Astria

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Thank you for bringing this to Burning Man.
Spread the love.
Keep the faith.
Every animal with legs deserves the right to run.
Every animal with wings deserves the right to fly.
Every animal with fins deserves the right to swim.
Fight the good fight.
-Tim G.

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Thank you so much for showing this. I really appreciate it. It was a video like this that made me realize to become vegetarian. I really think more people should see this.
- Brent R.

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Happy to see [this film], it's very educational and should be shown on public television. Good effort against animal cruelty.
- Amit

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People NEED to see this film!!!! It literally makes me want to become vegan and it's extremely informative. This information needs to get out.
- Kataka

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A poem by Nicholas P.
(written while watching the VegCamp video at Burning Man)

  Blood crust on my hands.
  It gets in your palms and lines red like veins, spilling blood, flooding my hand.
  A red pond that I see myself looking for a younger man, whose smile made him look older than he was.
  No I'm just...
    Wipe them on the aprons.
  The stain, the lines in my palm show me future.
  Just..
   pulse
     pulse
       pulse
    knife swing splatter
     knife  swing  splatter
      knife   swing   splatter
  What was I thinking?
       knife    swing    splatter
  What was I?