In regards to eating meat

[BrownEye]

A deer could never live on meat any more than a lion could live without it, but we can do both.

You do know about the meat scraps and chicken feces fed to cows?

It is a basic fact that far less resources are required to grow plant food for human beings than raise animals.

I seem to remember a UN meeting that worked on a proposal to force farming to move into sustainable organic methods. They knew that it takes a lot less food grown to feed a population if the nutrient density was higher. Since first reading the article I have not been able to find it again.

* I feel much much better without consuming animal flesh. About 2 weeks after I stopped, I felt as if I had gotten over a sickness I didn't even know I had. I felt vibrant, vital, and alive. My body absolutely responded to the new diet in a very positive fashion. And since going vegetarian I rarely suffer from any sort of sickness, I haven't even had even a common cold for years.

Kind of hard to explain to someone all the small issues that disappear, especially when you weren't even aware you had them.

* I have always gotten along with animals, but since becoming vegetarian (for the last 13 years), I have a deeper connection with the animal world, and animals of all sorts, but especially wild ones, react to me with far far less fear than when I still consumed animal flesh. Coincidence? Maybe, but it doesn't feel that way to me.

The fear that the slaughtered animals went through stay in the flesh. When you eat the flesh, that smell seeps through your pores. That is why hunters have such a hard time hiding their scent, they are meat eaters. I just love hearing about the hunters aggravations. (All my associates are hunters). Then I explain that I don't scare the animals away simply because I don't have their relatives in my sweat.