Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world

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78. yup.I could never be a hunter myself, but the lives the animals lead before death are so much better

I'm a crummy vegetarian (I don't want to create an economic demand for meat, so I don't buy it for myself, but if my family has leftovers that are going to be thrown away, I'll sneak a bite... darn it, I do still like the taste).

I don't think that people who buy meat in grocery stores are horrible people (after all, I do buy it for my family, since the alternative is killing it myself, which isn't going to happen). I think that by the time meat is shrinkwrapped and put on those styrofoam trays, it seems as innocuous as any food that didn't come from a living creature that was bred under unspeakably horrible conditions. It's sterilized for our psychological protection.

But I did use to think that hunters were kind of mean, even sadistic, until I realized that if they eat the meat from the animals they kill, they are at least willing to get their hands dirty. So, like you, I do respect them even though I would never ever ever ever ever hunt myself.