Joe from Kokomo wrote:

On Mar 29, 6:50 pm, dave wrote:
I'm a vegetarian.

Priest wrote:

I became a vegetarian 10 years ago for ethical reasons. My decision
did/does have side effects though: lost 50 lbs., energy level
quadrupled, concentration and memory dramatically improved, taste buds
rejuvenated, diet became much more varied,

*much more* varied, just eating veggies and -eliminating- meat, fish and
fowl? Sorry, but that seems contradictory.

meals and cooking became fun,

more fun? Why is it "more fun" to cook one thing than another? Cooking
is cooking, parts is parts.

interesting and a time of reflective appreciation. And the spiritual
benefits realized by refusing to participate in and subsidize the
cruel and inhumane meat industry...

What about that cruel and inhumane treatment of vegetables? You are
killing them (a living thing), boiling them, eating them.

Plants have feelings too, ya know. How would -you- like to be mowed down
in the prime of life?

If you wish to be a vegetarian, so be it. But meat is just another food
group along with fish, fowl and vegetables. Humans have been eating meat
for millenia, since the first cave man speared a woolly mammoth. Meat
has stood the human race in good stead for tens of thousands of years.
(Everything in moderation, of course. I'm not recommending you slam down
two pounds of bacon in a sitting).

It is wasteful to grow meat for food. Just "calories in" vs "calories
out" math shows how wasteful. Plus there is a lot of environmental
damage involved. The quickest way to reduce greenhouse gasses would be
for people to reduce their meat consumption. It could have a dramatic
effect in a very short time.

But we lack the courage, as always.