This debate is such a waste of time. Look man; if you don't want to eat meat, then don't. BUt don't try forcing your opinions on other people or trying to make someone feel guilty for their own, chosen actions. It's not right.
Personally, I'd like you to go to some poor, starving African country where children die by the hundreds every day of hunger, and tell them that it's wrong to eat meat. What should bother you more is that the US has the capacity to produce 33% more domestic beef than what we do now. Now would that bother you at all? If we bred 33% more cattle a year just to fence them in, take their babies away and eventually kill them in order to feed starving children in another country? "Boo hoo, those poor cows"
Seriously, man, peole are dying every second of hunger, dehydration and preventable diseases; there's much bigger fish to fry than what people decide to put in their own bodies.
If you feel so passionately about the issue then start a petiton and go door to door getting people to sign for a bill that would order farms to treat animals in a more humane fashion. Write letters to people in the government. Or do like I did and join an Environmental protection agency.
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