RE: TOP 5 REASONS why eating meat is NOT a personal choice...
Ill have to disagree with all but point number 3 i think.
Yes intensive mono-culture anything is detrimental to the environment, this is true for plant based foods too.
C02 is NOT an environmental polutant, and the comparison here with un-burnt petroleum should never have been made as this is far more toxic to your health and the environment. Ehaust gas is comprised of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, oxygen, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide and other trace elements, no where near the same level of atmostpheric polutants are produced by animal farming. This is manipulated science for political and corporate agendas.
Of course i'm not going to just leave you with just my opinion on the latter, as it is such a heated topic.
So here is a link to some Non- politically of finatially motivated climate science
Now lets look at what is often required in order to eat healthily on a plant based diet:
You will often need to consume imported food, shipped, flown or trucked around the globe. If your not eating local organic then your missing the point.
Consuming plants that have not been grown organically with a focus on nutrient density will leave you unhealthy and undernourished, welcome to the supplement scam.
There is the fact that there are many different types of human bodies, we are not all the same, and to assume that is just wrong.
Then there is the inappropriate ratio of animal products to plant food being consumed by the average person. Due to political and corporate propaganda this has been manipulated to increase animal products and grain consumption to maximize profit.
I have no problem with plant based diets, and i strive to achieve a higher consumption of seasonal plant foods, however i practice appropriate animal husbandry, and thus can ethically justify having and consuming my own animals, and the wild animals that are hunted in my area.
It is not my intent to demonize or discriminate, but i think all perspectives need to be heard and considered.
"Consuming plants that have not been grown organically with a focus on nutrient density will leave you unhealthy and undernourished, welcome to the supplement scam."
Huh? I don't eat organics. My blood test results are fantastic.
"There is the fact that there are many different types of human bodies, we are not all the same, and to assume that is just wrong."
Every single human being is a biological/physiological frugivore. Compare our physiology to the rest of the animal kingdom and EVERY HUMAN BEING lines right up with frugivores.
Food is already shipped around the planet. Where do you think animal feed comes from? It is grown in various places and shipped around to other places.
You say all that, as if you care about the environment, and then say 'I practice appropriate animal husbandry' when such a model is far worse than growing crops. Meat eaters require 18x more land than vegans to produce their food. Even if we don't eat local organic, a larger vegan economy has hugely positive environmental outcomes. Have you even seen Cowspiracy and checked their sources?
And if you deny that the climate is changing, simply because some people that would also like global government are using it to push their agenda, then you really need to reconsider that. It's not about watching some ice falling into the sea, it's about seeing what is actually happening with our ocean's ecosystems. It could simply be a massive coincidence, or it could be that man is having a disastrous impact upon the planet because of how fast were are consuming its resources and outputting all sorts of gases and pollutants.
Climate change is absolutely happening. Even if climate change isnt entirely man-made, then wild animal and plant populations are still very much threatened by it. Our impact on the planet for other reasons is harming these vulnerable populations. Animal agriculture, including grazing, is the biggest cause of deforestation and desertification.
You're not gonna have your fantasy world of animal agriculture in the 21st century. The human population is over 7 billion. The majority of them would like to eat meat. There are factory farms for a reason. You think they want to pay $100+ a kilo for meat? Would it seriously kill you to eat beans instead?
TL;DR: Get your selfish head out of your selfish rear-end.
Good for you that you can hunt animals (i guess sustainability in your local area but most people on planet are consuming factory animal farm meat) but what about the health implications of eating meat, does that not bother you?
no where near the same level of atmostpheric polutants are produced by animal farming
YES they are creating atmospheric and all kinds of other pollutants
A staggering 51 percent or more of global greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture, according to a report published by the Worldwatch Institute. According to the United Nations, a global shift toward a vegan diet is necessary to combat the worst effects of climate change.
It takes an enormous amount of water to grow crops for animals to eat, clean filthy factory farms, and give animals water to drink. A single cow used for milk can drink up to 50 gallons of water per day—or twice that amount in hot weather—and it takes 683 gallons of water to produce just 1 gallon of milk. It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef, while producing 1 pound of tofu only requires 244 gallons of water. By going vegan, one person can save approximately 219,000 gallons of water a year.
Runoff from factory farms and livestock grazing is one of the leading causes of pollution in our rivers and lakes. The EPA notes that bacteria and viruses can be carried by the runoff and that groundwater can be contaminated.
Using land to grow crops for animals is vastly inefficient. It takes almost 20 times less land to feed someone on a plant-based (vegan) diet than it does to feed a meat-eater since the crops are consumed directly instead of being used to feed animals. According to the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, it takes up to 10 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat, and in the United States alone, 56 million acres of land are used to grow feed for animals, while only 4 million acres are producing plants for humans to eat.
More than 90 percent of all Amazon rainforest land cleared since 1970 is used for grazing livestock. In addition, one of the main crops grown in the rainforest is soybeans used for animal feed. (The soybeans used in most veggie burger, tofu, and soy milk products sold in the United States are grown right here in the U.S.)