- Vegetarians who take it literally – eating nothing but vegetables.
- Lazy vegetarians, who eat pizza for dinner, left over pizza for breakfast, and pasta with a jar of tomato sauce for lunch. They’re not real vegetarians. They’re just pretending, and it won’t last.
- Self-righteous moralizing goody-goodies who like to make other people feel bad by making themselves feel better; trying to convert them to become as self righteous as they are. That’s not what it’s about. They just didn’t grow up yet. They will.
- Your health.
- Plant absorbs the sun’s energy
- Photosynthesis occurs
- You eat the plant, and
- Bingo! You absorb the energy and feel goood!
- Plant absorbs sunlight
- Photosynthesis occurs
- Cow eats plant
- Digests plant and
- Gets sunlight directly
- Then you eat the cow, and
- Get a little of that sunlight, but let’s face it, not much.
- The environment.
- Meat is not economically viable: it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of animal flesh.
- A huge amount of land is required to graze livestock and grow the grain necessary to feed that. That land could be put to much better use. Not to mention the issues of soil erosion, desertification, and threat to indigenous species that are implicit with overgrazing. Or the rain-forests that have been cut down to make space for that land…
- The meat industry pollutes massively. The VAST amount of water necessary for the rearing of animals and growing their feed, gets polluted; the land gets polluted (from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feedcrops, and sediments from eroded pastures.); eutrophication occurs.
- The meat industry is responsible for biodiversity loss on the planet. Care much about the thousands of species that are becoming extinct every year?
- The animals.