Hmm. Well, I'm not a vegan, I don't think I could be a vegan even if my life depended on it. I justify not being a vegan by buying my meat from local butchers who in turn source their meat from local farmers who in turn employ half the county. If we stopped eating meat it wouldn't just be the animals that would suffer (huh, I hear you say, if we're not killing them for meat then surely their life is better? Nope, sorry doesn't work like that), the economy would suffer, hundreds of thousands of jobs would disappear, everyone would be poor (no job), cold (no animal fat, skins etc) and hungry because as you said Kale tastes like shit. This guy has done a pretty good video on what would happen if everyone stopped eating meat. Good post though. If my vegan sister didn't hate me currently for feeding my niece (who doesn't want to be a vegan) steak, I'd totally share it with her.
haha fair enough
i do think MOST of the animals in farms live an existence not worth living. Whereas while its brutish in the wild too, its better.
The economics of it is difficult to say, there will always be winners and losers. But there has to be a lot of winners who can't reasonable see themselves in other fields of work to truly justify that amount of pain and death we inflict on animals.
I am a hypocrite though, I eat meat. But i try to eat less
I eat meat when I can, it's been a staple lately because of the bbq heatweave - my oven turns my entire flat into an oven when it's on so we have a lot of bbq's. My biggest problem with being a vegan would be giving up cheese. I just couldn't do it.
The slave owners said the same in regard to slavery. This is no moral justification. Thank you for taking the time to write this comment.