Vegan/Animal Rights

Before I start, I would like to point out that several of my arguments were dropped. "and it provides us with helpful things like protein." So your saying we should kill animals, kill the environment, and make people over-seas further impoverished for protein??? As for osteoporosis, animal protein contributes to this problem because keeping blood and tissues at a neutral Ph balance always takes priority over keeping calcium phosphate in the bones. Bones can hold out for years with insufficient calcium, but blood and tissue cannot because they need phosphate to offset the acidity. When the body becomes acidic with animal protein, it withdraws calcium phosphate from the bones and uses the alkaline mineral phosphate to keep the Ph levels of blood and tissues balanced. The calcium is then excreted through our urine. Epidemiological evidence proves that people who consume the least amount of animal protein always have the lowest rates of osteoporosis and bone fractures. I'm still looking for the first medical report in history that can indict broccoli, bananas or asparagus as a cause of illness. As for diabetes, most people are unaware that fat raises blood sugar as much as stress, refined carbohydrates and sugar! Since fat and animal protein go hand-in-hand, diabetes can be treated, controlled or cured with lots of cardio exercise, a minimum amount of stress, and a low-protein, low-fat, low-sugar, low-refined-carbohydrate vegan diet. A 2013 study also showed that marijuana is of great benefit to diabetics. As you regain control of your blood sugar, you will probably have to continue taking insulin shots for a time. However, within one year, you should be able to do away with insulin completely! (Pig serum used to be the key ingredient in insulin until doctors discovered it exacerbated foot neuropathy and ocular issues. All insulin is now made synthetically from human insulin.) " It's too bad they don't speak our language" Actions speak louder than words... "My point is that because we are not able to beat some animals in one on one fights we developed brains to help us build tools. This in turn helped us be able to beat these animals." Are you saying it is because we suck at fighting we got bigger brains? "This means we aren't herbivores. It is fairly simple." As I said earlier, classification is based on how the animal is BUILT. We are built 100% like a herbivore. It is fairly simple. "Meat, when prepared in the right way (which we can do because of our traits! Evolution at work.)" Preparing food is a learned behavior NOT an evolutionary trait. " is not poisonous to humans. Compare this to chocolate. If you eat to much chocolate, you can die. It is good and bad for you at the same time. Yet still, I do not see you arguing about getting rid of all chocolate. Everything can have negative side effects but that does not mean we should ban them. Also, in case you were arguing that the animal itself could kill us, pigs and cows are not violent creatures." You can say the same thing for smoking. What is your point? "Finally, even if you believe that consumption of animals is wrong, cows, pigs, and other animals we eat are domesticated and rely greatly on us to survive. " How do we rely on animals as food to live? A pound of beef is $15.05 and a pound of soy is $2.75 "If we stopped using them for food, we would not have a really good reason to continue keeping them in our care and feeding them with our resources. If we let them out into the wild they probably would die, and if we kept them here we would be wasting money keeping them alive, when there is no longer a market for them." So based on your logic we should eat all our pets. What use are they to us? Most would die if we let the go. Societies that exploit animals for food are the main cause of world hunger because they feed a disproportionate percentage of the world's crops to 60 billion land animals annually killed by the meat, dairy and egg industires worldwide and tens of billions of marine animals (yes, we have fish farms nowadays)"instead of 7.5 billion people on the planet! Do the math. You don't have to be Einstein to figure out this equation. Every 2-3 seconds some human (most likely a child) starves to death, while pigs and cows continually get fat. Even the Council for Agriculture Science and Technology, a group comprised of people involved in animal agriculture, acknowledges that 10 billion people could be fed with the available crop land in America if everyone became vegan. One acre of land can yield 30,000 pounds of carrots, 40,000 pounds of potatoes or 50,000 pounds of tomatoes. However, one acre of land can yield only 250 pounds of meat. Why? Depending on the animal in question, it takes from three to twenty pounds of vegetable protein to create one pound of animal protein. Thus it has been said in many places that animal agriculture works like "a protein factory in reverse." However, not only does this process squander protein resources; it obliterates carbohydrates and fiber, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and many other nutrients altogether. Citation: "All About Veganism." N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014. <http://www.adaptt.org...;.