...by the meat industry.

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Edited by sitdownstandup (01 Aug 2017 6.23pm)

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.

Hubert Reeves

Not contributing to meat consumption is one of the side-benefits that I like about being vegetarian. The meat industry is a major producer of pollution and greenhouse gases (yes, including cow farts) in addition to being a major cause of deforestation of the rain forests.

Feeding the human population meat is an unsustainable model economically, ecologically and logistically. I used to enjoy a nice steak, but now we eat meat as a staple of every meal and that's a pattern that's spreading to the most populous parts of the world - like China and India - whose diet was previously mostly vegetarian. We don't need that much meat in our diet for our individual health. We don't need any, in fact.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

I am about to tuck into roast leg of lamb, potatoes and home-grown vegetables.
I try to mostly have an ethical/healthy diet, but today is pishing down, and I can smell mint sauce.

then I am going to watch a DVD sitting on the sofa and fall asleep

I disengage, I turn the page.

If the world population is going to rise as projected people need to be fed.

This can't be done using natural processes.

Technology and political will needs to solve the population crises.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

If you haven't watched it yet, I recommend "What the Health" (availabe on Netflix in the US at least) as a study on how the food industry lobbies government and pays non-government health organisations to lie to us, and how we are not only better off eating a vegan diet (like not getting cancer better off), we're actually physiologically meant to.

I'm vegetarian - not vegan - because I have some dairy (yogurt, cheese and eggs) in my diet. I try to keep them to a minimum, but it's hard to eat out as a full vegan. Of course, this is a chicken and egg situation - if you pardon the analogy - because restaurants will provide better vegan options if the demand is there.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.