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After checking out this website and much thought on the subject, I think I'm gonna be a vegetarian. The stuff listed on that website is really sad.

http://viva.org.uk/

Would you give up eating meat for animal rights? Or, no? Why/Why not stop eating meat?

Rules: Respect each other. No calling meat eaters/vegetarians/vegans bad names, or giving them trouble. Respect each other's opinions.

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Before you post anything, I highly recommend that you visit the website, because it gives a lot of facts about the current treatment of animals, and other information.

I've been vegetarian for a number of years because of this, so... you know, I think I'll move this to "IDT", if that's okay...

I have a policy of eating just about anything, meat included. I spent the last year pretty much surrounded by vegans and vegetarians showing the plight of the animals in the American farm industry, but to be perfectly honest, I expected as much. Meat is a commercial industry like anything else, with people trying to maximize profit while minimizing cost. I personally don't agree with their treatment of animals and their practices which damage the environment (being an environmental science major), but giving up meat isn't the solution to the problem. No matter how many people you try and convert to vegitarianism, there's just too much of a reliance on the meat industry in the world, not to mention the health needs of those who don't have the convenience of protein supplements or whatnot to replace the meat in their diet.

If you really want to protect animal rights, I highly suggest that you get involved politically. Write to your local politicians, get people together for your cause, get in contact with groups like PETA and other animal rights activists.

"Don't ask for it; go win it on your own. Do that and you'll succeed."

Humans are omnivorious...have you ever noticed you havent seen a 70 yr old strict vegetarian? We were ment to eat meat AND veggy's. Stopping eating animals will only make there meat rot and there death a waste. hey are raised to be eaten, and USALLY raised decently. I love animals and wanna join PETA but going vegtarian won't help. Only if a super unrealistic amount of people go vegerarian. Besides, animals suffer just as much when other animals pray on them (actually...humans are tehcnically animals...) So if you think humans going to only eating veggys/fruit'll help, then you gotta change regualer animals to that to....won't work. Going veggitarian only makes the animals lives wasted.Be lucky you have the meat to eat here. There are places the would kill to eat it. (Note...world hunger) And be glad a lot of places in America kill and raise animals decently, (usally) other countrys raise and kill in less "nice" ways. I'm proud to be a meat AND veggy eater like God made me to be.
-Kacy

I can't become a vegaterian(sp?) because I hate veggies.I may sound like a kid but everytime I eat an apple or a piece of lettuce,I throw up.I don't make myself throw up,my body isn't use to veggies.I haven't eaten veggies all my life.I'm perfectly happen with it.I'm staying a meat-eater.

One could make the argument, however, that if humans were not actively hunting or raising livestock or degrading the environment, that nature would balance itself out, as it always does. We really don't need to worry about nature getting out of hand, because even if we're not there to keep populations down, nature has been doing it herself for much longer than we've been around. Vegetarians and vegans aren't doing it because they hate animals, they just are going about saving animals in the wrong way.

Also, not all of them don't eat meat because of animal sympathy; in terms of energy, it's much more efficient to be eating plants than it is to be eating meat. We evolved to be able to eat both so that we wold have a better chance of survival in the case that one or the other becomes scarce.

I believe a much more relevant course of action, rather than giving up meat altogether, wold be to only eat meat that you know is raised and prepared in a healthy and humane manner. They have free-range chickens for sale, I'm sure that you could find some similar product for beef, pork, and fish.