Slartibartfast wrote:If your very objective is to save such lives, it is quite silly. Instead of killing a few cows that wouldn't have been even born if not for the meat industry, you're destroying entire ecosystems and thus killing wildlife that are just minding their own business (and who nobody is breeding).
Killing the people you're trying to "rescue" doesn't count as collateral damage.
Even if my “objective” in being a vegetarian was to save lives (which it isn’t read the damn thread which should also inform you of my thoughts on animals bred for the meat industry) your argument makes no sense.
Where do you think the food that animals eat to turn into meat that we in turn eat comes from? It comes from the same damn ecosystem that I’m apparently ruining, you have to put a lot more calories into a cow than you eventually get out of it in the form of meat. Many of those calories come from food grown in exactly the same way as the food I eat, in fact a great deal of land is used to grow food for animals in the meat industry, it would take far less land to feed people directly.
So as a veggie I have less impact on the environment (and the animals “minding their own business” within it) than if I went back to eating meat. Try again that really was too easy
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