Factory farming has issues, yes. Factory farming exists as a result of grain being available from ecosystem-destroying monocrop agriculture. Eating meat is not the cause, here. Eating wheat/corn/soy/etc. is.

You know what humans were before they started doing silly things like cultivating grains? Earth’s most successful PREDATORS!

Bacon. Get some.

The problem comes when you get:
Don’t want to eat meat, fine. No-one else can eat it because I don’t want to.
Want to eat meat, fine. Everyone has to because I do.

That makes as much since as
I’m not gay, no-one else is allowed to be gay and I will force my belief on everyone! MY THOUGHT IS LAW!
(I’ve never seen anyone say the inverse….)

I for one eat meat, I like it. I’m allergic to fruits and veggies, and it SUCKS. I love fruits and veggies.
(Oral Allergen Syndrome, an allergy to all fresh fruits and veggies. :\ now this does mean I can eat heated fruits and veggies, like canned things or cooked things… But on top of that I’m allergic to strawberries, cherries, all melons, celery, and a ton of other stuff that I don’t feel like listing)

I’m also so allergic to trees that I can’t eat smoked things, and I don’t even want to go into my entire allergy list. But trust me, that’s not even half of it.
You know what that means?
I have a limited food source. (granted i did eat meat before I developed these allergies, I happen to like it- I’m not just trying to make an excuse with my allergies. {I’m actually just complaining…})

I will eat my damned baked chicken and fish as much as I want, and I don’t want anyone to tell me I can’t. (If they do, i would like them to at least tell me what too eat)

But I also am not about to go tell someone that they have to eat meat because I do. Good for you, you don’t eat meat.
Honestly, that is wonderful. I’m actually jealous, you don’t know what I would give to be able to eat a salad or an apple again. (or chocolate…. ;-;)

Neither ways should be pushed on people :\

Also, addressing your comment,”If you should not eat them god should have made them out of meat.” I for one am an atheist. And evolution does not involve god making stuff, let alone making stuff out of meat. Just thought you ought to know.

Life feeds on life, to believe otherwise is ignorance.

While you are correct Mad cow disease can be transferred from animal to animal by feeding cows nerve tissue (spines and brains) that practice has been banded for over a decade already. Also the danger of Mad cow disease was much overstated. You can only get it from eating nerve tissue, which is not a common practice and even then it is pretty uncommon.

Take the UK were they had Mad Cow disease rampant throughout their system, eating brains is more common in their cuisine and only a few people died.

The domesticated animals used in agriculture are herd animals so I don’t see the problem in having them in large groups and farmers try to keep them as healthy as possible because sick stock is losing you money. I would say most farm herds are heather than comparable wild herds.

I’m not sure I understand your aversion with organic wastes going down the drain. That water is all treated before it is returned to the rivers and I think household chemicals going down the drain is a much larger problem.

“Shit and piss … are pumped on the fields” this is perhaps the strangest comment in your rant. It is called nutrient cycling and has been going on for millions of years long before humans were even around. Shit and piss or more properly manure is excellent for fields it increase fertility and the increased organic matter has a host of benefits including moisture holding capacity, nutrient holding capacity and tilt just to name a few.

I hope someone learned something with my long rant.

Unfortunately, some vegans/animal right activists take it to the extreme. They care more about other animals than humans. Gives us all a bad name.

The problem with this theory is that grain and vegetable crops usually produce a higher profit margin. Therefore, most of the land that livestock is raised on has one or more limiting factors that keeps it from being used for other purposes.

You have that backwards. I like to eat what tastes good to me. Doesnt matter if its vegie, meat or just chemicals. Guess what? People like that do not need a support group because they are fine whith their dietery choices. The vegans that go to support groups go there because they care what other people think of them. Just like mindless sheep. We might not live longer that all of you vegans but every meal we have untill the rest of our days is going to be AWESOME!

For me this pic is great, definitely a win. I tried chowing down veggies (to help cure an illness) but couldn’t make it past lunch. I eat according to rules that I follow, atop what my soul likes.

I find myself actually concerned about the readers of the comments, whether they will be influenced to eat babies. It just makes me think how far a vegan would go with rhetoric suggestions just to win this Paralympic.

Cannibalism has been suggested. Someone may take it seriously and try. Someone may not take it seriously and try, and go “Hey, it’s X, our enemy, right? so it’s cool for consumption, it’s meat”.

You’re gonna be a factor just because of a simple picture that spawns images of empathy in your head, efforts for proofs with your time, and godly ambition in your heart?

Motivation for cannibalism is what it is, even if rhetoric.

Sooner or later there has to be a fine balance. I choose to eat meat because I am a biological omnivore. Tell a wolf to eat vegetables. And if I chose to be a vegetarian it would be for health benefits, not animal pain. How the hell do we know plants dont feel pain? Just because there is no neueronal network? Just cuz we dont know YET doesnt mean its fact.

So you can save all the animals and save all the people, but sooner or later we will RUN OUT OF resources to FEED everyone because we keep tearing down pristine habitats to employ everyone. ITs so hippocritical to say ‘save the animals from pain ‘ and be compassionate, and save all the humans- but then to contribute to the things that are actually going to wipe out more species then eating them will. Look at both sides of your arguments before you give lectures on ‘morality of eating meat’

Humans evolved as OMNIVORES. We eat meat as well as plants. Deal with it or whine about it to God or Charles Darwin, or even your imaginary girlfriend if she likes you enough to care.

It’s the natural order of things that we eat meat. If humans evolved as herbivores and only ate vegetables like all you crazy vegans out there, why do we have a full set of teeth? Why do we have canines? Why don’t we have teeth missing like a cow or a sheep?

You don’t neccessarily have to eat farm factoried meat. Get some money from your dead-end job and buy some free-range food.

OH NOES!!11!eleven! A tiger just killed a deer and ate it! It’s not a vegetarion! We’ll have to kill it!
It’s the natural way of life to hunt prey. If plants are so great how come all the carnivores like crocodiles and lions don’t eat plants, hmm?