[Sherab]

I don't feel that eating meat is the issue, it's eating meat produced in factory farms.

The fact is that we survive off the deaths of others. Even being a vegetarian means that millions of bugs are killed to feed you, along with plenty of cute little rodents.

And another aspect of this is that, for better or worse, many of the species of domesticated animals depend on us for survival. The cows, chickens, and others animals we raise would not last five minutes in the wild, and they would probably go extinct. So why not create a symbiotic relationship: we raise you (humanely, of course) and then eat you, and when we die, we become grass and you eat us. It is the cycle, the way that nature works.

I think that consuming animals can be done in a humane, healthy way that benefits both species, and the earth.