Veganism

Your "I eat chicken and love bears" statement may define you, but not the majority of meat eaters. A lot of people love big game hunting. Including bears. For the most part, meat eaters may "admire" and "respect" wildlife like bears, but if you put a slab of bear meat in front of a hunter they will chow down. There are exceptions for everything. The only time we are allowed to kill another human in our society is self defense. That is an exception. If you eat meat and you aren't starving you are a in the wrong. In response to your rich vegan argument. I'm a college student who is vegan. You do not have to be rich. Produce is usually super cheap. I actually went to the store and took down all the prices for vegan vs. non vegan food. All the meat was cheaper. The dairy, I will admit was slightly more expensive but it was way healthier. Good health is worth it. Anyway, stopping animal abuse is a good enough reason to pay slightly more for your food. You can get all of your vitamins and nutrients from a plant based diet. The cow had to get his nutrients from somewhere, and it wasn't meat. Keep in mind, humans are biologically herbivores. http://www.adaptt.org...# Open the nutrients link. In the link you wrote in your last argument, one of the top ten polluting industries in the world was listed as "industrial sites." A meat processing plant is an industrial site. And, disgusting as it may sound, most of the pollution comes from the methane emitted from the cow feces. Yes, this is 100% natural, but it has disastrous effects because there are WAY too many cows on this planet thanks to the meat industry. Yes, we feed more crops to animals because there are more farm animals on earth than people. Remember 150 Billion animals per year? Half of those killed are farm animals. The other half are fish. We have to feed the other 75 billion something, and that is where most of our crops go. http://www.adaptt.org... The meat industry is also terrible for your diet. Meat is fattening and you can get what you need without that side effect. You are literally eating a dead body. Gross. Milk too. You don't need cow's milk as a human anymore than you need dog milk. That alone gives you no excuse to allow cows to be raped for a drink. In the end, veganism is the only compassionate way to live on this planet because eating the salted corpse of a murdered living being is the opposite of compassion. Humane killing does not exist. To determine if something is humane, examine if you would want it done to you, even if it is painless. Making the switch to a vegan lifestyle may seem hard at first, but it soon gets much easier. There is so much suffering in the world. Why add to it? This the only time people like us have had the chance to participate in ending a holocaust. If you love your dog, then why not love cows and pigs and chickens etc. They all just want to live and be free of pain and fear. Go vegan. At least try it. You really don't lose anything. It may only make a small difference to you, but you will be saving the lives of animals everyday you don't eat them. Slavery was once normal. Just like meat is normal today. Both are wrong. We have to start making the change. We have to help end the suffering. Society's laws are not always morally right. Being vegan is the definition of compassion. Showing love to all creatures should be something to strive for. It was a pleasure debating you on this topic! Good luck!