Should We Eat Meat?

Thanksgiving arrives every year with a heated debate over how to best cook that plump and juicy turkey. But the idea of a tofu turkey (also known as a “tofurkey”) has gone from a joke a couple years ago to a reality for many. While vegetarianism has been practiced for over a thousand years in some countries, it is a relatively new concept in the West. And so, with the question cropping up more and more often, should we eat meat?

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Animal Agriculture Causes Global Warming

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Scary but not so much

This point is largely irrelevant as well. Using it to support your argument implies that stopping the process of raising animals will reduce greenhouse gases. But there is a large hole in that theory: When people stop raising animals, they will turn to doing other things that will increase the amount of greenhouse gases in those areas that were lower than livestock outputs.

- sumwatt July 24, 2008 10:46AM

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- We don't damage the way we used to.
  
  Planning has come a long way, we tend to put more into it now.
  
  But I'll humor you; switching from animal to grain and/or veggie production increases global warming how? More methane... uh no. More brown sun absorbing soil exposure... uh uh, just the opposite. Come up with something please, what are these mysterious "other things" you mention?
  
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Go hunt, then.

The problem PETA seems to have is based, in large part, on animal agriculture. Fine then: go hunt. There is, in many states (my home state of PA, for instance) an overabundance of game animals such as the white tailed deer. Deer are not grain fed, they don't require huge areas of leveled pasturage, and venison and other game is much better for you than processed meat. Hunting game doesn't contribute to global warming, cause starvation, or harm the environment in any way- hunters pay disproportionately for conservation efforts, AND hunting the deer population, for instance, down to a natural levels puts humans back into a stable ecological niche as predators.

- marxandlennon September 17, 2008 8:26PM

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UN Livestock Report Is Just Plain Wrong

The UN report "Livestock's Long Shadow" that supposedly proved that livestock creates 18 percent of greenhouse gases is a good example of how easy it is to lie with statistics. For the complete explanation of why the conclusions in the report are wrong, please read http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm /headline/3742.

- Bonnie1 April 11, 2009 9:27PM

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Oh Really?

The funny thing is that this was disproven, but oh wait PETA providing misleading information, what a shocker!

- Bleininger14 August 12, 2009 3:50PM

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