Vegan/Animal Rights

So your saying we should kill animals, kill the environment, and make people over-seas further impoverished for protein??? -> You say we kill the environment, yet (according to a study by ANU) there has been an 11% increase in foliage over the past hundred years of so. Also, there are currently over 1 billion pigs on the earth, and besides humans they are on of the most common mammals. We kill these pigs to gain valuable things like protein, and at the same time help their species grown. While individual pigs may not enjoy dying, it is essentially a win-win situation. The pigs get the food and shelter and a growth and population size, and in turn we get food, and nutrients. Actions speak louder than words... -> You never asked, "what would they do about it?" You instead said, "what would they say about it." Are you saying it is because we suck at fighting we got bigger brains? -> To put it VERY simply, yes. I have explained this topic throughout my whole debate yet every time you seem to not get the basics of natural selection. When looked up and Google the definition can be seen as, "Natural selection is the gradual process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of the effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of organisms interacting with their environment." The species with bigger brains were more successful at reproducing, because this trait helped them survive even when they lacked giant fangs or claws. Since the bigger brained (smarter) humans survived more often than the less smart ones, this trait carried on throughout our species. A person/creature built like a herbivore probably would not be eating meat. All though we cannot tear apart raw flesh very easily, we still CAN eat meat. I will say once again that this makes us omnivores. "https://www.vrg.org...; says that: "The key category in the discussion of human diet is omnivores, which are defined as generalized feeders, with neither carnivore nor herbivore specializations for acquiring or processing food, and who are capable of consuming and do consume both animal protein and vegetation. They are basically *opportunistic* feeders (survive by eating what is available) with more generalized anatomical and physiological traits, especially the dentition (teeth). All the available evidence indicates that the natural human diet is omnivorous and would include meat. We are not, however, required to consume animal protein. We have a choice." Build is not everything, and even if it was we still are built so we can eat meat. We as humans will eat many things, meat or not meat. We have traits that aren't specifically herbivore or carnivore. To put it generally, we are in the middle. If we wanted, we could survive only on meat. In the same way though, we could eat only meat! Keep in mind though, that this debate is not about whether humans are herbivores or omnivores, it is about whether we should eat meat. I think we should have a choice. You can choose to not eat meat, and I will totally respect that. On the same note, I can choose to eat meat whenever I would like, and I believe that you should give me that right. Meat has its pros and cons, but in the end it is up to the consumer to choose what they eat. Don't ban the entire meat industry because of your personal views. I'm not saying the majority makes me right, but 97% of Americans eat meat and to not let them do that anymore would be preposterous. Thank you for debating with me.