I can understand where Vegangelica is coming from. Normally, the biggest issue when we come to the meat industry is factory farming. Conditions can be very extreme for animals in factory farming--not to mention that factory farmed animals are very fatty and have lots of hormones and steroids to help them grow bigger in highly enclosed areas.
The biggest argument I hear towards the treatment of animals in factory farms are the fact that they can't hold a moral contract of any sort(i.e. I won't harm you if you don't harm me). By that logic, it is moral to eat babies or the mentally inept. So, if you can't disern a difference between humans and animals, than that alone could prove factory farms unjust.
Personally, I agree with Unfan, a vegan diet is a highly extreme way to go when it comes to protecting animals. Meat contains protien and iron which our bodies have come to need. If you don't eat meat (especially read meat), you can become anemic. A friend of mine doesn't eat red meat because she's allergic and therefore has to take iron pills in order to make up for her loss in iron.
To be honest, Americans in general could stand to eat less meat (moreso factory farming than standard independent farming). I eat BBQ every few weeks and include some meat in dinner every other day or so. I snack allot (popcorn, fruit, whatever the hell is in the pantry), so I end up not eating much for dinner anyways.
Anyways, I still love meat, and always will. And, if I *had* to give up meat, i would never give up fish. Never.
peace out,
-nick
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