More on Vegetarianism 2

In response to Jake - full post here

Most animals, in fact, are social species. Therefore the same reason that you would choose to kill a plant would apply to them. Also, I am not quite sure what you meant by your second point (outside of the social grouping aspect of evolution).

Regarding your hypothetically being a cow, if you would choose that, that is fine, that does not however mean anything for the rest of the population. On the other hand, in terms of how it actually is, would you rather have a long life and be afraid of predators occasionally, or would you rather have a short life? Mind you, the short life is actually filled with being fed genetically enhanced foods which caused you to grow so fast that your legs break,  rendering you unable to stand, because they cannot handle all of your weight. It is filled with constantly being prodded and branded by humans and having your horns ripped from your skull. Filled with being constantly impregnated so that you produce 10 times the milk that you would normally produce in nature, so much, in fact, that your stomach is filled with pus. Filled with being in such close confined quarters that you quite literally cannot turn around or move in any direction. I'm not sure many people would take that short life over a long one filled with fear occasionally.

Yes, I did know that actually - and interestingly, every time you consume a piece of meat you are supporting that activity by giving them money to do so. I, personally, would be much happier to return to the days when cows grazed freely until it was time to give milk. They could give milk, and then never have to suffer from being killed prematurely. There is no need to ever eat animal flesh, to kill an animal prematurely, if we do not need to. It's better for the cow, the environment, and the individual person. Also, as another side note, the economy and the individual worker would never benefit from that. There would be obscene job loss and the entire beef industry (worth $74,000,000,000) would be crippled.