Why I Don't Eat Faces.

Obviously the writer is very passionate in the writings about vegetarianism, and he has the right to be but his views are not my views.

As to the taste of meat being an acquired taste, I do not believe that. I myself to not actually eat too much meat really, but it is not because I believe it is morally wrong to eat other animals but because I often times simply do not want meat and if I do eat meat it is not too much because I feel really sluggish after eating meat. But I do crave meat at times as well, I have an iron deficiency and know that other foods like beans and leafy greens can be substituted but really meat does the job most efficiently for my body and as well I grew up with a pot of beans always on the kitchen stove, so I already ate a lot of beans. It is a part of life and the food chain, we are animals and most animals eat other living animals, it is natural.

What I do have an issue with is not the fact that we kill them but the way animals are housed and treated when they are going to be killed for meat. They are often pumped with drugs for faster growth and are mutilated. This is unsafe for the them and for the consumers as well, the animals are healthier when they are treated more humanely, so safer and healthier for them means safer and healthier for us.

My response to the belief that treating animals better will lead to a less violent world, I do not think this would actually occur. I am not saying we should not treat them better but most people can differentiate the difference between an animal and a human. And the unethical treatment of people by people has occurred for centuries not just from the time of industrialization where the factory line attitude of meat production had started. Before that time animals where seen as a valued asset on farms and often times people where not feed until the animals where feed, so this mistreatment of animals has not been around for as long as the mistreatment of people has been.