Macfistowannabe said:
I do wonder though, how everyone in Peta can be a vegetarian. This video was sad to watch. I would think that our will to survive would be threatened if everyone was a vegetarian. How would we have enough food? Where and how would we get enough food?
i'm not going to watch the video, because i've seen these things before, and all they do is keep me awake at night.
that said, i think that if everyone were vegetarian -- i'm not, but i wish i could be ... i don't eat beef, though -- the world would be a vastly better place. simply, it takes one pound of grain to make one pound of bread, and 10 pounds of grain to make one pound of beef. also, livestock animals produce immense amounts of waste (piss and shit, basically) that then get into our lakes, rivers, and streams. this is why i don't eat beef. in addition to being a rather fatty source of protein, cows are the biggest culprits when it comes to waste pollution and consumption of grain. and it makes you fat.
while i would never criticize someone for eating beef, i do wish we made better decisions as consumers. just because soemthing is available, and you can afford it, doesn't mean that 1) you deserve it, 2) you need it, 3) you have some sort of inalienable right to it. it's like SUVs -- i can see the use, especially in the snow. but why anyone in southern california or florida needs a 13mpg HumVee is beyond me. i would never pull an "Earth First!" and smash up the windows, but they do disturb me since its such an obvious waste.
i also think we don't realize just how much our decisions to consume certain products affect other people. sure, you enjoy driving your gigantic SUV, and you might tell youself, "well, my kids are safer in an SUV!" lovely. what about the poor woman in the 1993 Honda Civic who you roll over? what about the hours i have to spend waiting in traffic because i have to drive on an overcrowded road that was never designed to hold an army of mini-tanks shuttling children from one activity to the next? don't you see that your horribly fuel-ineffecient cars is depleting natural resources rapidly, is causing politicians to support horrible ideas like drililng in ANWAR, and providing yet another impetus to go to war with certain Middle Eastern countries?
yes, it is a free country; i just wish we were more conscious of how we consume.
anyway, back to vegetarianism ... like abortion and the death penalty, this does not concern me morally. i don't view it as moral or immoral to eat animals -- but i do think it makes much more sense to be vegetarian.