st0wandgrow
Well-Known Member
I said the exact same thing at one point in my life. Your views may still evolve from where you're at ... or not.I'll agree that factory farmed and caged animals are not good to eat. I know protein can be found high in beans and legumes, however I buy all ny chicken at the farmers market where the vendor I buy from has free range chickens, no antibiotics or any other injections of any kind. I also hunt and fish, grow what I can of my own food. However I will never ever give up meat! Not because I possibly couldn't but because I won't... I love meat to much and it is tasty. Doesn't mean I'm out shape either I stay away from fast food as much possible and as I said I choose my sources of all things ingested and when I do buy I tend by from farmers and ranchers of what I don't grow myself.
Having kids changed my perspective a bit. I worry about the world we're leaving for them. Eating meat, no matter it's source, is supporting an unsustainable industry imo. The worlds population is exploding, and meat is going to become a VERY expensive delicacy in our lifetime. The oceans are being over-fished, and livestock consume too much grain for their return of meat.
Health and ethical reasons aside, I don't feel that meat consumption is a good thing for our planet.