Snowpea Sprout

yeah - we are omnivores for a reason. To eat whatever substance is readily available to us that delivers us the most kcal units (energy). To further our species, and to continue life. No argument there.

If this was 8000 BC or even the 1800s, I would agree that in some, if not most cases, you would need to eat meat to thrive. Why? Agricultural systems have not been fully developed, export and import services (trade) doesn’t exactly flourish yet - so yeah, you need meat for its calorie dense nutrients. While not HUMANE (it will never be humane to eat meat - if you are required to kill another living thing, there is nothing humane about that - the statement is oxymoronical by default), it was certainly understandable. You raise the animals well and lovingly, and when you had to feed your family in the winter, for lack of crops, etc, you kill and eat the sheep, cow, chicken, whatever was available to you.

But think about our situation today. We are living in a time when (and I am talking about 1st world here) we want for nothing, everything is readily available and inexpensive (do not bullshit me and tell me fruits, vegetables, grains, and lentils are expensive, they’re not. I live in America, and I have traveled to Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, etc, and have never experienced these items being expensive). Today, factory farming is rampant. Deaths are militant, and I am sorry to say, are a mass genocide that happens daily. Remember studying the Holocaust? Okay, that was AWFUL. Imagine that happening on a regular basis every day for animals: the quantity, the cold, mechanicalness, the swiftness: THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING. To deny this is ignorance. To deny this means you haven’t googled “factory farming.” To deny this means you haven’t watched 1 documentary on Netflix discussing this. To deny this means you are blind.