Comments Catgrrl63 has made

  • Going vegan harder than hunting?

    If I hadn't read them with my own eyes, I would never have been able to imagine the wildly improbable excuses and ratinonalizations that have been trotted out by folks who absolutely refuse to accept the fact that a vegan diet is better for the planet, not to mention the animals and our own health.

    Does anyone honestly believe that it's an easier "sell" to convince people to go out and hunt wild boar rather than eat more vegan foods? Is it really easier to "eat local" than to simply choose the bean burrito over the beef? Contrary to what a previous poster said, eating local is NOT more important than eating lower on the food chain. That locally grown pork that you bought had to be fed for several hundred days on food that had to be trucked from somewhere--and it was trucked many, many times, instead of just the one time it would be shipped if fed directly to a person.

    Another interesting thing to consider is how much harm to the environment is caused by treatment for heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and the cancers that are conclusively linked to a meat-based diet. Sure, vegans get sick, too, but meat-eaters are more likely to get sick from chronic diseases that require years and years of treatment and all the resources and pollution that entails. On PETA VP argues vegetarianism is the best way to help the planet posted 2 years, 2 months ago 77 Responses

  • Sustainable, schmable

    I love all this talk about supporting
    "sustainable," "family" farms. Does anyone who says this have any idea how many animals are killed every year to "sustain" America's meat habit? It's something like 25 billion, if you include the billions of fish vacummed out of the ocean (but not including the millions of dolphins, turtles, birds, and other sea animals killed as "by-catch.")25 billion! That's, what, 4 times the human population of the entire planet?

    Anyway, the point is, we are eating too much meat to be sustained by "sustainable" farms. We simply have to cut back our meat consumption to put a dent in the vast quantities of resources being wasted.

    Oh, and one thing people seem to be forgetting--even "sustainably" raised animals produce manure and methane, and most of them have to be fed grain and other feed, which would be more efficiently used if it were fed straight to humans.
    On Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians posted 2 years, 2 months ago 208 Responses

  • Touched a nerve

    Whoa, is that your guilty conscience talking, Alex?

    Obviously, PETA is using hyperbole to make a point. Duh. Any activist group worth its salt does that. And the reason they do it is because it works. Look at how PETA managed to get global warming and animal agriculture's impact on it covered by the New York Times. Seems like they  must be doing something right.

    The point is: Animal agriculture--local, regional, global, intergalactic--contributes to global warming and host of other environmental problems on a huge scale. This is a plain fact. But it is one that is being largely ignored by many environmental groups. PETA is absolutely right to point out this glaring elephant on the plate that everyone is trying to nibble around. On Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians posted 2 years, 2 months ago 208 Responses