Vegetarianism is a Necessary Lifestyle Choice to Lead a Perfectly Ethical Life

I just wanted to throw up statistics up first, seeing how I will argue this these are the true arguments you can attack on, secondly all information is related to the topic at hand. Defense:" I'll start off by pointing out that the very absolute statement #1 is wrong. Collagen is a protein naturally found only in animals, and it is the most abundant protein in those animals. Ingesting this is nutritional, especially for the joints. Many people with arthritis and other joint diseases take collagen and powderized shark cartilage capsules as supplements. It seems self-evident to me that there are many differences between plants and animal, and there are many similarities between animals and humans, that make eating animals (at least occasionally) very sensible. I don't think that following this sense can be unethical." I'm ok with this statement besides where he says animals and humans have similarities, and my question is at this point why isn't cannibalism a choice? Why isn't cannibalism and choice in society instead of cremation or being buried why not have the option to eat you uncle after he's good and gone? well if you say this immoral then we must say eating an animal is similar to eating your uncle and therefore immoral. Case: 1. We must look toward this unethical stance all the facts I have posted prove that eating meat is not a nesscarliy needed for living, if such food is not nesscary then the mass slaughter of animals which as my opponent stated are similar to your brother, sister, aunt , uncle, father, mother, cousins, and or kids. Then its an immoral endeavor and is unethical. Would the mass slaughter of humans for the nourishment of an I don't know greater alien life form would it still be moral since they are the more advanced species? If you say no you must vote for my side. 2. There is no need to eat meat and these statistics can prove how without the factories and slaughter houses we improve society these are the statistics. The Natural Resources Argument Uses of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float a U.S. Navy Destroyer Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25 Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000 Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet: 13 Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260 Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calorie of protein from beef: 78 To get 1 calorie of protein from soybeans: 2 Percentage of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is devoted to the production of livestock: 33% Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S. needed to produce a complete vegetarian diet: 2% The Antibiotic Argument Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55% Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13% Percentage resistant in 1988: 91% Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: ban Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support The Pesticide Argument Common misconception: U.S. Department of Agriculture protects our health through meat inspection Reality: fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99% Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8% Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating mothers: 35 times higher Amount of Dieldrin ingested by the average breast-fed American infant: 9 times the permissible level These facts prove that the use of these slaughter houses we have increase the infections that are resistant to penicicillin since 1960 to 91% in 1988. Also wastes natural reasources, withe the use of large land usage and more.