Quote (bogie160 @ May 20 2010 01:56am)
No, there actually aren't many other sources of protein I can use, I need quick, available food with high protein / calorie ratios. Without milk products / meat, I'm boned. This is ignoring that the natural human diet has no need of supplements, and that in most cases natural diets are objectively preferable to supplement based ones.
No, your "in other words" is wrong.
1. Animal husbandry is often practiced on land unsuitable for farming.
2. Actual weight or caloric intake is irrelevant, the question is which diet is optimal for human survival and health.
3. You are attacking a way of life (eating meat) because of certain adverse effects a subgroup has on the planet. Expensive, healthily raised meat is no more damaging to the planet than you or I.
4. Even were the entire practice to be damaging to the planet, your argument disregards that eating meat is still healthier for the individual. I've had this argument with you before, humans are biologically predisposed to be omnivores, and yeh, that includes meat.
Golden Rule - I don't expect other species to accept or accommodate themselves to my presence, they eat and survive without regard to human life, all I ask is that I be left alone to do the same.
Animal rights activists discriminate against humans, they expect humanity to be held accountable to laws that animals (by their biology) cannot also be held to.
That's well and good for them, but I'll kill every last one of the bastards before they ever stop me from eating meat.
@ the underlined: You're just saying that because you LIKE to eat meat. You, and everyone else, knows that there are plenty of alternatives to meat that will allow you to get your protein in a convenient and easy way. Seitan for instance. Or soy products. Or spirulina. Or legumes. By the way, there is no 'objectively preferable diet' since preferences are inherently subjective.
1. Not true. Look at environmental studies and you'll see.
2. There is no such thing as an optimal diet because any diet is optimal when it gives the necessary nutrients.
3. The peer-reviewed study says otherwise. It is one of the leading causes of damage to the planet.
4. Again, eating meat is a preference since there are plenty of alternatives that are even better for you than meat.
Just face it, the only reason you eat meat is because you want to and you like iit. That's all your argument amounts to, really.