Watch the film what the health if you haven't. On netflix... eating meat is a cause of a lot of preventable diseases and a lot of informed doctors now are recommending a switch to a diet eradicating meat in order to improve health. The meat industry is a very powerful and rich group who hold a lot of sway over media, advertising, the health industry and politics.

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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.

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Yes, I know we have eaten meat for a long time now but not everyone did and we aren't "designed" to eat it just we will if it is a survival option. Hindus don't eat it, Neanderthals in some parts didn't eat it.

You may as well say we are designed to eat insects.

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What you are saying is meaningless and without basis.

Humans will eat anything to survive if it is available.
We eat meat because we want to and that is all the evidence you need to know that we are made that way. Cultural drivers will make some behave in a certain way but that is usually against our natural urges.

Eating meat - all animal-based products, actually - makes you chronically ill and will eventually kill you. You're going to die eventually anyway, but consuming meat etc. will hurry that along.

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

Have you seen a chimp's canines? They are built for eating meat. I sincerely hope your teeth don't look like this...

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

The global meat industry contributes more greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere than the global transportation industry. Meat production is incredibly carbon-intensive. In addition, the world's population of beef cattle (i.e. excluding dairy cattle) eats enough grain to feed a world human population of about 9 billion. South American rainforests are being cut down to make way for cattle, which accelerates the whole disaster.

Conversely, if you cut out the "middle man" and just eat vegetables, we can use the land currently turned over to growing animal feedstock and use that to grow food for human consumption. Removing beef from our diet (doesn't have to be total, we just need to keep it for rare occasions) would allow all that rainforest to be reconstituted (it's been proven that this will happen in a very few years if left to its own devices).

We'd all be healthier, we'd be reducing / eliminating all the chronic illnesses that come from consuming animal products: heart disease, diabetes, cancer. That would in turn relieve the pressure on the healthcare system and save a s***-ton of money there too.

Oh, and we'd slow down global warming considerably and have much cleaner air to breathe. No more carbon-heavy cattle farming - producing livestock that breathe out CO2 and fart methane (a significantly worse greenhouse gas than CO2). We'd be farming vegetables that take in CO2 and express oxygen, don't need to be refrigerated, are far less prone to carry disease and include all the proteins, calcium and other elements that we need (where do you think the cows get their protein and calcium from...?).

Edited by Ray in Houston (05 Sep 2017 3.46pm)

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