Comments drgarlic has made

re eating meat

While I agree that eating meat is a nature-given right of human beings, there are many valid reasons for not doing so.  For me, two are important enough to keep me very near to vegetarianism.  First, I have never been able to kill animals and turn them into meat.  I feel that if I cannot take direct responsibility for making the meat available, perhaps it is best that that I don't eat it.  The second is the inefficiency of meat eating.  It takes much more energy from the earth to provide a calorie of meat than it takes to provide a calorie of vegetables.  Animals are relatively inefficient in converting vegetation to meat.  With the human population out of control, it seems that the less soil energy we use, the better for the whole system.  That said, I would encourage the meat-eaters among us to consume free range and grass fed animals that are grown without the use of growth hormones and antibiotics.  On Local or organic? It's a false choice posted 2 years, 8 months ago 9 Responses