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In September, Chop’t, a chain of upscale salad restaurants in NYC, is donating a portion of its profits to Every Mother Counts, a global maternal health charity. And that’s great.

Chop’t

But, before printing “EVERY MOTHER COUNTS” onto their take-out bags, Chop’t should have considered the fact its servers would be filling those bags with thousands of mothers who were chopped up and tossed into their salads. And that all of those mothers had their babies torn away from them at birth. Let’s be honest, Chop’t! Those mothers do not count.

Eating a salad for lunch should be benign activity, but when you toss animals in with your lettuce, it becomes an act of violence. That might sound extreme, but what is in actuality extreme are the factory farms that produce the animals — factory farms that harm our health, the planet and, of course, the animals.

When making decisions about what to put in your salad, please keep this in mind: pigs, chickens and cows are not ingredients; they are mothers, fathers and children who wanted to live and did not want to be tossed into your salad.

Graveyard

Please keep this in mind too: plant-based ingredients are healthier, less expensive, cruelty-free and delicious. And some of them, like seitan, soy products and mushrooms, have a similar consistency to meat, if that’s important to you.

Chop’t veggies

You can live without meat and cheese. In fact, you can live better without meat and cheese. But the animals cannot. They need their own bodies to survive, and they need their milk secretions for their babies.

Like the “Every Mother Counts” campaign at Chop’t, eating animals is a great disconnect in modern society. Almost everyone says they love them, but only a few abstain from eating them, in spite of the well-documented cruelty.