As long as the animals are treated with dignity and respect during their upbringing and slaughtered with as little pain as possible who cares.
Just for funsies, here are the top five reasons that only stupid girls brag about eating meat:
1. Meat increases the risk of breast cancer. A 2007 study of 35,000 women published in the British Journal of Cancer found that women who ate meat were far more likely to develop breast cancer than women who consumed none. Will Jessica's next t-shirt will say, "Real Girls Smoke 3 Packs a Day"?
2. Real girls don't support animal abuse. Compassion is super sexy, if the huge number of hot celebs ditching meat is any indication. Young women turn vegetarian in droves when they learn that the meat industry cuts the sensitive beaks off newborn chicks and cuts off the tails of baby piglets.
3. The meat industry is destroying the Earth. The only thing that's hot about the meat industry is that it's toasting the planet. According to the United Nations, raising animals for food causes more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, SUVs, planes, and ships in the world combined.
4. Meat will make you fat. All the saturated fat and cholesterol in chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs and love handles. I hope the upcoming "Jessica Simpson's Intimates" line comes in plus sizes! Going vegetarian is the best way to get slim and stay that way.
5. Eating meat steals food from starving kids. Jessica's trip to help kids in Africa got a lot of media buzz, but by gnawing on meat, she's essentially stealing food from the mouths of starving children since it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat. If more people went vegetarian, we'd free up enough grain to feed every person in the world.
I would eat PETA members if prepared just the right way
4. Meat will make you fat. All the saturated fat and cholesterol in chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs and love handles. I hope the upcoming "Jessica Simpson's Intimates" line comes in plus sizes! Going vegetarian is the best way to get slim and stay that way.
5. Eating meat steals food from starving kids. Jessica's trip to help kids in Africa got a lot of media buzz, but by gnawing on meat, she's essentially stealing food from the mouths of starving children since it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat. If more people went vegetarian, we'd free up enough grain to feed every person in the world.
How about some meat perfume? Real men smell like flame broiled meat?
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I personally find both the vegetarian and meat zealots annoying. There seems to be a dearth of common sense when these issues come up.
I have to say that one can have a balanced diet (without relying on pills) and be vegetarian (especially if you're not vegan). I was raised that way and I'm not exactly malnourished. The people from my Christian denomination in North America are traditionally vegetarian and not long ago they--along with two other groups (Sardinians and Okinawans)--were featured in a National Geographic article about their remarkable longevity. A vegetarian diet was considered one of the reasons for their longevity.
That said, I do think it's possible to live a healthy life while eating meat in moderate amounts and aiming for the lean stuff etc. I currently eat vegetarian at home but will eat meat on occasion when I'm at a restuarant or something like that.