Why are those here who eat meat so defensive?

[FBaggins]

150. You keep using that false example.

We never, for instance, stopped using gasoline or paint. We just changed the way we produced them so that the valid concerns were answered.

We may some day get to the point where the majority insists on more sustainable farming processes and better living conditions for livestock - great! - but that isn't what these threads have been about (as much as you might like to spin them). They've been about convincing people to stop eating meat entirely (in some cases to end the use of all animal products).

And that simply isn't going to happen (nor would it be even as sustainable as the current mess). We have a tough enough time convincing people to modify their consumption when the global climate is at risk. We might have limited success with "less red meat and more poultry", but cut out meat entirely?

That's not activism/advocacy... that's a tiny minority so insecure in their own decisions that they have to convince others to do the same thing just so they feel like they belong. Like the Atkins dieter trying to convince others to stop eating bread around her because it's bad for them and we really evolved eating mostly meat.