Reply #49: Yes, but you were responding to me and I stated in my post I'm not a vegetarian [View All]

[cui bono]

although I don't eat beef and eat very little of any other meat and use soy milk and rice milk rather than cow's milk.

I agree with the rest of what you say, IF people cut back enough to not have raising cattle be an environmental problem, which currently it is, and quite a big one.

One of the first threads I read in here having to do with this and PETA had people bragging about how they love to eat meat etc... I was taken aback by that being on this board since eating meat has enormous social and political consequences, and most animals raised on a mass scale, as most of them are, are mistreated to the point of cruelty and torture, and yet people were proud of contributing to that. It was rather disheartening. So that's why I feel that a lot people are averse to the idea, and to me that's the equivalent to driving a hummer or being proud to leave your lights on in every room 24/7.