I don't need to watch the video. It's nothing I havent heard before or don't know. I gave it a shot. The first thing he said was he was there to talk about the oldest and strongest addiction... he ruined his shot.

i am now reevaluating my eating habits

i didn't watch the video, i'm just answering the topic question

Yes, we really need to kill animals.

Otherwise they would replicate out of proportion, they would eat our crops and infest our houses.

Just ate birds the last two nights, I'll probably eat a cow or pig tomorrow.

If you believe that then you need tot ake a vacation and go spend a weekend at a nice bread and breakfast in a nice small town. Unplug from the internet, meet new people and reevaluate your priorities.

If you think a man eating a burger is a tragedy but not a diver killed by a shark I want you to consider how the diver's family feels for their loss. The cow harvested for the burger was not missed by it's herd.

Stop comparing humans to animals. This falacy is the reason your alien analogy is so flawed and why you can't see it yourself.

As a pet owner and animal lover who believes that animals deserve respect and should be treated with kindness believe that there is no difference between a lion eating a zebra and a man eating a hamburger. However there is a HUGE difference between a shark killing a man and a man killing a deer. Both men are loved and love other humans. The shark and the deer are souless.

Do some need to? Perhaps not. Do I? Yes, because if I tried to go without meat, I would probably go insane.

If we weren't supposed to eat meat, it wouldn't taste so damn good, and it certainly won't have health benefits.

Animals eat other animals too btw, and often killing them in a much more cruel and painful fashion than we do. It's just how the food chain works. Life is dependend on other life for surival in a variety of ways, with include consuming one another. God/mother nature made the rules, not me :P

Tell animals to stop being delicious.

There will be many steak-and-mushroom-sauce-devotees responding to this thread due to their beliefs being threatened.

Don't listen to them.

I've been vegetarian for 8 years. I eat amazing food, am super healthy, and would never go back - meat disgusts me. You need to learn how to cook/eat properly now. It's tough in the beginning, because it's completely new, but with enough willpower you will look upon this as one of the biggest steps you've taken in life.

"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind." Albert Einstein

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love." Pythagoras 

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." Immanual Kant

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Edison 

"My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder." Benjamin Franklin

"I have since an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." Leonardo da Vinci

"A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows". George Bernard Shaw

whoaaaaaaaaaa are you now suggesting not milking dairy cows? Dear lord and you talk of animal cruelty what do you think would happen to those animals which have a perfectly happy life if you don't milk them?!

edit - also milk isn't a meat, just sayin

You probably think your joking attitude on this topic is somehow endearing - funny; It is the stock-standard response I've come to expect after being a vegetarian for 8 years. My father - a 3rd dan black belt and lawyer - made the same quip at first.

Funny, how predictable human beings are.