What do you eat then?
I understand your annoyance about the preachy ones that don't eat meat (my last post was kinda preachy, but it soon is when explaining reasons for being veg). But at the same time I've often been called out by meat eaters (at a BBQ or something) with interrogative questions about why I would possibly be a vegetarian. I think that's the world reversed. No matter how you turn it, it can't possibly called a bad thing to spare animal's lives. While eating them, could be argued, is.
Nah, you were just expressing your personal reasons and there's nothing wrong with that. Had you said "you should all think about those poor animals, etc. how DARE you eat meat, you're the second coming of Stalin..." or something like that, it would have been of great annoyance to me. However, you did nothing of the sort, and only told us why you personally choose to be vegetarian. That's something I can respect.
My personal stance for supporting the meat and the fur/leather industry through my purchases is--I wouldn't do anything to an animal that I would have a problem with doing to a person.
I dislike the people who question other people's motives for doing things too. It's rather rude, I think. In the end, whatever one's personal decision is, is one's own to have.
As for eating them--there's population control, and that's a good thing. For a long time, eating meat was actually a really good thing--until the mass commercialization of the meat industry, which is where you get all the problems with global warming, cruelty to animals, decline in the quality of the product, et cetera. The same could be said for vegetables, though--the large demand for food in general prompts people to up their quantity (i.e. injecting cows with hormones to produce more milk, genetically modifying vegetables, and using pesticides to take care of large crops--which harm the ozone layer among other things.)
The way one would reduce things like global warming would be by going back to the agrarian manner of living--to grow and use one's own vegetables and farm animals for consumption. This is highly inconvenient, however, and we've become so accustomed to technology's use in both the meat and vegetable industries, that going agrarian is practically impossible, and going organic and local is, especially in places where the weather does not permit for such things, overly expensive and for most people (especially the poor) not truly worth the effort.
In my opinion, the real problem is overpopulation of the human race--even if we all become vegans, there's still too many of us, and we all use a disgusting amount of resources. The way it's going, there seems no other way to go but up with all the people having babies, especially in developing countries where birth control and pregnancy prevention/abortion are not practiced. The "going green" and being vegan would be akin to placing a bandaid on a bullet wound--in the end, it doesn't really fix the problem at all. The times prior to ours never faced this problem because disease got rid of people--with all the scientific breakthroughs we've had in the last century, most diseases aren't affecting us on a large scale like they used to in centuries prior. There's certainly no easy fix for any of what we've done in just this century alone.
As for what I eat...well, I eat KFC whenever I can, and I usually eat pringles, ramen noodles, tea, biscuits, and coffee.
@Daryll--that's really also part of the reason I don't eat much meat. My stomach reacts badly to it (and some vegetables as well.) However, it seems to have no problem with ramen noodles or pringles, lol!
