Childhood indoctrination

[bennyboy]

Yeah, you are right Benny. I did let my emotions get the better of me. So hard not to with so many out of work.

'sokay.

Anyway, I missed the main point I really wanted to make: that pragmatic reality and idealism aren't mutually exclusive. We shouldn't really be debating reasons not to go all veg. What we should be debating is whether we want to.

My vote is yes. I want to, because I feel I can eat well and spare animals. The real problem, though, is that there are so many people that we can only realistically feed them with industrial farming-- and where you have big industry, you are going to have to trade off for a lot of other things-- clean air, moral issues, etc. give way to the reality of mass production every time. Sure, some rich dude sitting in Starbucks with his $200 hand-stitched satchel can probably find a perfect little organic farm somewhere to eat from. But he probably hasn't taken the time to multiply that by 7 billion mouths.