Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?

[TheJackel]

I think you have missed the point. Sure, we may kill something. Step on a bug etc. the point is, should we inflict UNNECESSRY pain and suffering when we can decide not to.

eating plants is killing something, and even competing for food resources. And the argument you are purposing is a guilt trip argument for people who eat meat. Tell me, do you tell this to bears or other animals? And do you have any idea how much natural habitat we would have to convert to farming to feed the world all on a vegetarian diet? You have any idea how many ecosystems we have destroyed as a human species just by converting natural habitat into farmland? agriculture is the principal cause of habitat destruction.

The Chaco thorn forest is being destroyed at a rate considered among the highest in the world to give way to soybean cultivation.



Satellite photograph of deforestation in Bolivia. Originally dry tropical forest, the land is being cleared for soybean cultivation.[6]

Or how about here in the United States where there are so few states that even have what you can actually call "wilderness"? :

United States agriculture in 2007, there were 2.2 million farms, covering an area of 922 million acres (3,730,000 km2).

And that doesn't include Urban sprawl, highway and road systems ect.. To put that into context, the size of the United States is about 3,794,100 sq miles (9,826,675 km²).. Remove Alaska and you kind of get the picture..So what do you plan to do to reduce "Unnecessary" pain and suffering on species in which we destroy by ripping apart their natural habitats so we can make you feel better about not eating meat?