Reply #64: The argument for eating meat is even MORE flawed, though! [View All]

Agribusiness sucks, of course: it's a cruel and disgusting business. I bet few people who take a field trip to a slaughterhouse would happily go straight to McD's and get a big mac. The animals are mistreated, pumped full of hormones (bad for you, bad for the environment), killed by people who are underpaid and have no health insurance and die at a much faster rate than any other workers.

And if every human on earth ate as much meat as Americans do, we'd be out of land -- meat takes much more space than grain per gram of protein. That's the most unassailable argument, IMHO.

BTW I'm not a vegetarian: I'm married to a meat lover and don't have the wherewithal to do it right now. I haven't eaten beef in years though I do partake of the chicken.