Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world

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42. I despised hunters until I became a vegetarian. Now I respect them.

You take no responsibility when you pick up a shrink-wrapped package of dead animal parts in a styrofoam tray at the grocery store. A hunter takes responsibility for what it kills and eats.

I haven't eaten meat since 1989 and will never again do so. But my views on hunting are so different now. I used to think it was cruel. What's cruel is what our animal farms do to the creatures that end up on those styrofoam trays. Hunting is natural.

I'll never eat anything containing animal parts again, but at least I understand the role that hunting falls into. Well, at least now I do. Factory farming is simply wrong, for animals and for plants. It's killing the world.

The amount of meat that exists is the cumulative of all living creatures. Nature does a pretty good job of regulating that. Humans do not.