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I do not understand why people are willing to kill animals for food when healthy vegetarian alternatives exist. Animals want to live as much as people do, and to take their lives when it is not necessary strikes me as cruel.
The meat industry is a contributor to global warming. It depletes our water resources, especially out West. Cattle ranchers shoot and poison prairie dogs, coyotes, and any other animal which they feel interferes with their operations. On top of all of that, you have intelligent and sensitive animals like cattle and pigs and goats and chickens enduring terrible living conditions, or in the rare case, adequate living conditions, and then being forced onto trucks and train cars and having their throats slit in slaughterhouses while their fellow "livestock" look on in fear.
All of this pain and suffering could be eliminated if people would only go vegetarian.
For those who argue that animals kill and eat animals, since when have people patterned their behavior on the law of the jungle? We're supposed to be capable of better things, like compassion.
