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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
This is deja vu. Haven't we been here many times before? CP vs. Dissentower/Suzles/Sowa?
Sorry, but I'm with the general CP side. Meat eating is part of our genetic makeup through evolution. We have the teeth to tear apart meat and the digestive system to digest it. I don't doubt that today's farmed and slaughtered animals are fed with certain amounts of otherwise questionable byproducts as feed (chicken feathers ground up for protein supplement), certain antibiotics and drugs, etc. but much of our commonly available vegetables and grains are also genetically modified and also heavily fertilized. I have absolutely no problem with that and eating those foods and believe all the fear-mongering about it is simply hysteria built on the same psyche that generates conspiracy theories not based on sound rational logic or science. I was raised on this food and I'm perfectly fine (at least I think I am!!!). The human animal is much more adaptable and resistant than you would think. Is there a problem with antibiotics and fertilizer use? Yes it's leading to the evolution of more and more resistant pests and organisms and disease, but there's not much that can be done about it without overturning the entire food production industry worldwide.
I have nothing against Vegetarians or Vegans etc., but it is definetely a personal choice and not something that needs to be preached to everyone else like it's a fataing religion.
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Read this man, it might change your tune a little when it comes to what you put in your stomach!!!!
http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php
As far as people preaching alternative eating habits, do what I do. Ignore them. As I said before, if everyone went vegan there wouldn't be enough land on this planet to support growing all those veggies, and half of us would die. People simply do not understand this. Same with processed beef, etc....if everyone went free range organic we would all starve due to the lack of land to graze your cattle and chickens. Food sources are finite if they're not mass produced. Throw in fertilizers and pesticides to cultivate those lands and grow crops to even TRY and keep up with demand, and you have one gigantic, effed up eco system.
So in my mind the more people that eat fast food from commercial operations the better. Their lifestyle choices are likely assuring I have enough quality food for myself. The fact that it comes from mistreated animal farms is almost a necessary evil to keep me alive......it sucks but it's the friggin reality.