Is becoming a vegetarian/vegan worth it?

[HoloDust]

Eagle367 said:

HoloDust said:

This is very valid point in "animal killing" discussion - as someone who went vegetarian in my early 20's (I'm in mid 40s now), when people were asking me why I did it I was telling them that I don't feel comfortable with killing animals, as in me, personally, and as in animals, not living beings per se. I would still kill animal in wilderness if there was nothing else to eat, but I just don't have to in current world, so I just skip that part.

On the other side, I'm perfectly comfortable with ripping a plant from the ground any time of day to eat - I guess it's our inherent anthropocentric natures  that makes us feel more comfortable with killing plants than animals, some people just accept that as part of themselves, others don't.

But don't say murder and torture. Eating meat is in our nature just look at our anatomy. If killing animals is torture and cruel and murder then so is plants. I have seen vegans act self righteous and they think they are doing something humanitarian or great or fantastic when they don't eat animals. You can eat grass for all I care but don't act superior because of that. Just a reality check that technically we torture plants a hell of a lot more than we do animals and we are fine with that so the animal murder part is all in your heads and I am proud not to be a part of this arrogance and eating meat is also healthy if taken in the right dosage. A meat eater can be just as much healthy and even more than vegans, so stop with this self service garbage you people have going in

Sorry for the hard language but this behavior makes me furious and mad as hell. I am human and hence eat meat and plant because humans as a species is omnivores.

Yeah, there's always tedious and self-righteous people on both sides and honestly I don't give a rats ass about any of them. I do it cause I, personally, have more sympathy for animals than plants, but I've never tried to convince anyone my POV is better then theirs - acutally, very short after I became vegeterian I got tired of explaining it, so I just started saying I don't like meat. Period.