PETA Is Not the Enemy.

[athena]

192. Every bit helps.

I don't expect people to give up being omnivores. (In fact, I don't expect any omnivore who has read this thread to even reduce his/her animal-product intake. I'm skeptical about whether these DU discussions achieve anything, since so many people seem to be dead set against changing their opinion about any issue. But the anti-PETA thread, and the one that attempted to respond to it but got hidden for technical reasons, convinced me to post this thread, if only to prove to myself that DU is still a place where controversial issues can be discussed. I'd like to think that I've informed someone about how horrible factory farming is, but I'm not so sure.)

It's quantitative: if half of all omnivores reduced their animal-product intake by half, the effect would be huge. Much bigger than if even five percent of people switched to a totally plant-based diet. So I'm not advocating that everyone switch immediately to a plant-based diet. I'm not a purist, and I'm not so crazy as to think that such a thing is even possible. As I stated in my post, I'm merely asking people to think about the issue and to inform themselves about factory farming. (Before anyone accuses me again of arrogance: I didn't know about the real horrors of factory farming until ten months ago, and I don't consider myself ill-informed, so I have reason to think others may not know, either.)