I like to provide views from both sides of the coin on issues that we raise, so here’s one that is quite objective:
Source: http://www.care2.com/causes/former-vegans-explain-why-they-eat-meat.html
I suppose this is why I’ve never promoted vegetarianism PER SE, rather, I urge readers to EAT LESS MEAT. Even in my latest book, “Do We Have a Choice?”, I ask that we consider eating less meat, even if it’s just once a week. I fully understand that not everyone can become a vegetarian. Some humans just need some meat to fulfil their dietary needs, but we don’t have to gorge ourselves silly on meat knowing how much suffering goes on at the factory farms.
This excerpt is from the link above:
Every living thing, from mammals, birds, and fish to plants, fungi, and bacteria, eats other living things. Humans are part of the food web; but for the artifices of cremation and tightly sealed caskets, all of us would eventually be recycled into other life forms. It is natural for people, like other omnivores, to participate in this web by eating animals. And it is ethically defensible — provided we refrain from causing gratuitous suffering.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/former-vegans-explain-why-they-eat-meat.html#ixzz1hYkobjeY
For me, the only reason I eat less meat is precisely because I know animals suffer gratuitously in the factory farms. It is for this compassionate reason that I do what I do. And why do animals suffer so much – it is because there is a great demand for meat and that is why billions of animals are bred in the most inhumane conditions and slaughtered in the same.
If we all do our fair share by eating less meat, the amount of suffering in the factory farms can be reduced.
On the other side of the coin, there is the argument that the meat industry is sustainable whereas the plant-food industry is far more ecologically unsound.
And there is also the other argument that says we do not know enough about plants. They are living things, too. What if they too feel pain when they are being cut and cooked?
Yes, there will always be arguments for and against.
I think the bottom line, again, is to adopt a moderate stand and to listen to our body and our heart. It will tell us what we need to eat.
My personal eating principle is this – Eat less meat for compassionate reasons; be flexible when eating out or in functions so as not to be a burden to others.
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