With my last post I was not trying to get all judgemental on people who eat meat. Yeah, a very strong argument can be made for why eating meat is immoral, but I'm not actually interested in it. Like I said in that post, I'm not a vegetarian for moral reasons. I'm a vegetarian because that's the way I was raised. Actually, I'm a piscetarian, but most people don't know what that is so I just stick to vegetarian.Â
Whever I see a truck full of frightened animals on their way to the slaughterhouse I do feel glad that I'm not directly adding to their suffering. I'm not totally free of any kind of blame myself, though. My cat eats meat, and it would be animal abuse not to feed it to her. I not only buy my grandmother's dog dried cow's ears for a treat, I will happily spend 10 minutes pawing through ever cow's ear in the shop to make sure I find the biggest one for her. And I eat a hell of a lot of dairy products. I can't even lie and say I'd be able to give up dairy products, either, because a world in which I cannot glut on chocolate is a world in which I do not want to live.Â
Regardless of the morality of modern farming and the causes of global starvation and the ties those have to diet, I'm not going to judge anyone by their choice in food. In fact, as long as you're not doing something really bad like kidnapping local pet dogs to eat or murdering other people because you want to be a cannibal, I don't care what you eat.Â
But don't try to claim that vegetarianism is somehow causing more problems than it fixes.Â