Vegetarianism is a bad excuse to not eat meat

=Why would they get offered meat?= In reference to Pro's arguments against "religion" and "personal feelings/psychology"... Pro never limited the subject down to people who are being offered meat, so the subject is about any vegetarian even if nobody ever comes up to them and offers them meat. Maybe these people aren't being offered meat? Or maybe they went to a place that had meat in order to get non-meat items off the menu. Either way "not wanting it" is a perfectly good reason. =Recommendation for Arthritis= Pro says arthritis patients can just ignore the recommendation. This is true, but a person's health is not a "bad excuse" for something, it's a "good excuse". If someone has arthritis and finds the pain is reduced by not eating meat then that is not a bad reason. If even a few people have a "good excuse" to not eat meat then vegetarianism is not "just" a "bad excuse" to not eat meat. =Food Safety= Yes fruits and vegetables need to be washed, but that's much easier than the sorts of preparations needed for meat in many cases. Yes, people eat meat in ancient times when we didn't have modern technology. Regardless today we can make scientific estimates of risk when we eat. If a community is told their meat is tainted with salmonella but their fruits and vegetables are relatively safe it makes logical sense for them to switch to a vegetarian diet for the time being. =The Spoiling Argument= Meat may spoil faster, but other foods spoil too. Milk has an expiration date. Fruits and vegetables rot over time. As for the new people coming into the world the chance of a small number of them being vegetarians is actually quite high. For every single one of them to want to eat meat would be next to impossible. I'm sure the meat industry wants to maximize profits as much as possible, so they would try to predict the amount of "meat demand" in the next generation. In calculating this they would have to analyze vegetarianism and see how the population is going to grow or shrink in the future. Pro makes it sound like because only a small number of people will be vegetarian that therefore the meat industry can't take into account. That's absurdly ridiculous. Industries take into account the numbers and percentages of people's preferences all the time rather than just going on "which is bigger?" If they didn't niche markets would not exist. =Solution to Spoilage= There is an obvious solution to the problem of spoiled meat. Feed it to the poor before it spoils. Not only would it alleviate poverty it would give the meat industry good PR. That the meat industry forgoes this option is its own fault, not vegetarians'. =Political= There are laws, but they are not adequate. Animals are often confined in tight spaces. Some vegetarians might stop being vegetarians if the meat industry or the government would just fix this problem. In that sense the waste isn't the vegetarians' fault, it's the meat industry's. A few simple changes could make the problem go away. www.meat.org Furthermore there is now research into test tube meat and a lot of vegetarians say they wouldn't mind eating it if it was on the market. Vegetarians may be pushing ahead scientific research by abstaining from traditional meat. http://www.examiner.com... =Freedom!= I'll cap this off by saying this is America and in America people have choice, choice to choose what to eat. Vote Con! Vote for liberty!