Well, I've read almost all of this argument. Since I can't really be botherd to particapate in the discussion, I will only put my point of view foward. . .
Eating meat isn't wrong. I only don't eat meat because of the way the animals are kept, and the way they are slaughterd. The only meat I do eat is Tuna (and I don't eat very much of it), because suffocating to death is better then being ripped to shreads from limb to limb while still alive. I addmitedly eat Tuna purely for selfish reasons, since I don't need to eat it. Also, recently I've been trying to ween myself off of ordinary cows milk, and onto organic milk and soya milk. The way they produce ordinary cows milk isn't very nice, since they take the calves away from thier mothers. I don't think they take the calves away from the cows on the organic farms, but I'm not too sure. I'm gonna go find out for myself soon, though.
I also eat cheese, which is another dairy product. And yes, I only eat cheese for selfish reasons. Oh, and I never eat eggs if they aren't free range.
Anyway, I belive that you probably should go and hunt and kill the animal yourself before you eat it, and kill it in a humane way. I'd do it, but I don't because:
1. There isn't anything to hunt around here, save for grey squirrels, foxes and wood pidgeons (Ugh!
).
2. I don't need to. There are plenty of vegatarian products for sale everywhere, so I can get enough nutrition off of them.
3. I've been vegatarian all my life, and I'm not used to meat.
I think thats about it.
- DH