[split] "Some people eat animals, some don't."

[Diana]

I just want to add, that in 2015, it's not impossible to be extremely ethical with most of your purchases. I try hard in all areas, not just food. The "trees and GMOs and people don't matter!" argument IS a slippery slope, and a strawman. I feel guilty when I pull weeds, and avoid it. I see wooden objects as a strange mutilation. I buy from local vendors and not huge conglomerates. I shop at an organic grocery store. I've avoided large technological purchases in recent times because I'm worried about the ethics of how we produce them. To assume that just because in a thread about eating animals, that no one is talking about reducing plastic waste, that it's something that nobody thinks about, either.

This isn't me bragging, this is just me explaining a few of the choices and lifestyle changes I have made to be a more conscious consumer of our Earth's resources.

Money is energy. We can spend it thoughtfully or thoughtlessly like all other forms of energy.

Yes, exactly. Those are the same kinds of choices I make every single day. It's just normal to me, to make those choices.

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We make conscious choices one at a time. No, we can't do EVERYTHING because for one thing, we don't know everything. But each choice can be conscious based on our awareness. For instance, I don't have the money right now to build a house made of all "green" materials. When I remodeled the house I live in, I used recycled materials wherever I could—carpet, roof, insulation. One choice at a time.

So why choose to eat meat? That is the point here. It's not necessary for human survival. It destroys more plants geometrically than if animals weren't raised for food. This is to say nothing of pesticides on the plants grown for the animals, GMOs, and the suffering of the animals, plants, and planet.