Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

I've now gone about 7 months being veggie, and it seems the longer i go without eating meat, the more and more i enjoy it, and the more i realise it is the only way to live.

Even though i usually acknowledge other sides to arguments, and try to look at things as objectively as possible with no bias whatsoever, I'll never be able to do it when it comes to not eating meat. I am incredibly one sided with this. I know I'm right when i say it's wrong to eat meat, and i know people who say it's right, are wrong.

If everyone had to kill every animal they ate, we'd almost all be vegetarians. I find people's complacency and ignorance infuriating when it comes to eating meat, and sometimes it's hard to keep it to myself. I need to learn to ignore it. People go to a supermarket and buy their chicken or beef already plastic-wrapped and ready to throw into a frying pan. No idea where the meat came from, no idea what the animal went through, and worst of all, a lack of caring for both.

Every time i see someone devouring a big mac, or some chicken wings, i feel like smacking them across the jaw. I can't stand the ignorance. The arrogance with which people think the human race can do as it pleases with all other animals. We are the cancer of planet earth, sucking the life out of it.

Anyways... i guess maybe i should do a list of why vegetarianism (and veganism although I'm not quite there yet) is the only way to live...

1. Just because a species is less intelligent than us, does that give it less of a right to live? Just because it can't communicate with us, or have the same brain capacity, does that mean it's ok to just kill it for our own use?
   

   "If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"

2. Don't give me "the food chain" story. Are humans built to kill like carnivorous animals? can we eat raw meat like carnivorous animals? We aren't part of the food chain.
3. Would you kill and eat your pet dog or cat? What's the difference between them and a cow or a pig? Just because we don't have an emotional attachment to a certain animal, does that make it OK to be killed for us to eat?
4. Don't tell me it's natural to eat meat either. Is it natural to kill billions of chickens and cows per year? 23 million chickens are killed per day in the U.S. alone. That's 269 per second. How is that natural? Slaughterhouses aside, it's not even natural to kill one chicken, one cow, one pig, one fish, one human... anything.
5. The planet is being destroyed in order to accommodate for people's meat eating habits. Here's some facts....

"By growing grain which is fed to livestock which is fed to humans, you end up with much less food than you would have by feeding grain and other plant products directly to humans. Annually, an acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or a paltry 250 pounds of beef. If Americans would reduce meat consumption by just 10%, enough grain would be saved to feed the 60,000,000 people who die of hunger each year. It's a damn shame that people in third-world countries are going hungry while their land is being used to feed meat to rich people in other countries."

I could carry on but i'll leave it there.
I find it interesting as i talk to people about it they see my points, but are reluctant to change their ways, but as soon as they see it, instead of hearing it, they quickly change for the better...



Every time i tell someone to watch this they come back a different person.

(following parts are on youtube)

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