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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Meat Isn’t Green & Greenpeace Doesn’t Advocate Eating Kangaroo

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So hunting is green?

If raising animals for food is so harmful, hunting for meat is obviously the answer. A pound of beef may require 2500 gallons of water, and wheat may require only 25, but wild venison does not need to be provided water. If anything, shooting the deer ends the menace of some creature eating our food, drinking our water, and farting greenhouse gasses. Obviously, I am being a smart ass. Your argument is not against meat, it is against agriculture in general. Since global warming doesn't exist and agriculture is required for sustained human population, human specialization, and civilization in general, I would say that it is worth the cost.

- richardsonkr January 24, 2009 11:32PM

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