In regards to eating meat

[Ali Quadir]

This depends of course on the reason why people don't eat meat.

I personally don't eat it primarily because I don't like the waste of resources that it implies.. A single meat only meal if replaced by vegetarian food using the same amount of raw resources could feed 10 people. If everyone in this world decides to eat according to our western spoiled kid standards, half the world would starve to death. If everyone was a vegetarian we could feed the world many times over.

I also don't like to be party to the abuse of animals in the slaughterhouses. But I would have no problem killing an animal with my own bare hands and eating it when push comes to shove. I'm known to be flexible as a vegetarian. Sometimes when you go abroad there's just no alternative. But there's no doubt in my mind that vastly reducing our meat intake as humans is the only way to go if we want to equalize the levels of wealth across the world. Which IS going to happen. Might as well give a good example.

I know 3 other vegetarians up close in life. All three are on a diet, or should be I'm borderline but that's because I've got heavy bones I am mindful of not eating too much. I don't know where that emaciated idea came from. But that has little to do with being a vegetarian. In fact it's proven again and again that a vegetarian diet is much more healthy to the average western person. Precisely because it avoids all those diseases we get because we eat unnatural diets. Yes, some meat is natural, but we're talking snails insects and the occasional leftovers from a carnivore's lunch. We're not talking about the amounts most people eat today.