Comments on: Ten reasons why you should eat less meat

By: Diane MacEachern

Diane MacEachern — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:37:26 +0000

Couldn’t you start with “meatless Mondays” and just cut back a bit? That’s the way to begin!

By: Alberto Martin

Alberto Martin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:20:07 +0000

I wish I can be a vegetarian in an instant. But I can’t help eating meat especially nowadays.

By: Sir Jimmie's blog

Sir Jimmie's blog — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:50:21 +0000

Well hello there! In this post did you use the data from any studies or these are totally your exclusive conclusions? Thanks in advance for your answer.

By: Diane MacEachern

Diane MacEachern — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:08:37 +0000

I hope your kids get to see the rainforest, too!

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:53:08 +0000

Wonderful information. I actually very much like number 1, It’s astounding that there are less and less remaining rainforest in the world today. Hopefully my kid gets to see it or whats left of it when he grows up. I sure do hope that rainforests will not be a thing of the past that they can only read in books in the future. Scary..

By: Diane MacEachern

Diane MacEachern — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:23:15 +0000

Hi, Gregg. You are welcome to mention my article on your website and link back to the original. Thanks for asking.

By: gregg

gregg — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:40:30 +0000

Thanks, Diane, for the awesome article and I completely agree with your sentiments. Since my awakening, I’ve eaten significantly less meat and processed food, while drinking a lot more water.
With your permission, I’d love to mirror this article on my website, with a link back to this page.
Thanks for your consideration and keep up the great work!

By: Diane MacEachern

Diane MacEachern — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:18:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m mostly a vegetarian myself, and never eat beef. Maybe we can support a “meatless Monday” campaign or something?

By: rron

rron — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:02:58 +0000

best thing I have done in my life was to realize my personal impacts on the animal world and environment, open my eyes to the factory farming system, and stopped eating meat. many positive things resulted, the most profound being a higher spiritual ‘awakening’ or awareness.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:52:52 +0000

I don’t think veganism makes sense on a health, ethical, or environmental level.
Health-wise – it may be possible to live a healthy life without any of the nutrients to be found in meat, but it is difficult, uncertain, and ignores many vital aspects to our biology. There are certain types of meats, raised in certain ways, that have loads of health benefits and little or no negative impact. We can be entirely healthy beings and eat nothing but meat.
Environmentally, this is a dubious claim as well. Factory farming is environmentally disastrous, but grass-raised livestock are a feasible aspect of a sustainable food culture. Why not take the two pounds of grain and produce more food with it? Because massive grain production isn’t sustainable, it contributes to a much greater carbon footprint through the global shipping of food products, and undercuts the ability of different global regions being able to support themselves agriculturally. That is, the land used in America to raise meat should NOT be seen as potential cropland that could feed people in India. Granted, Amazonian rainforests should not be seen as potential cropland to feed people in the U.S. either.
Moreover, veganism specifically limits people to quite narrow food choices, and often (although I recognize this isn’t necessary) the resort is to make a whole slew of products based of things like soy. This is environmentally harmful and dangerous, as it ignores the benefits and sense of diversification.
Ethically, it’s the abusive practices of factory farming that are morally repulsive, not the act of eating another animal. This is a natural process that sustains the earth. Furthermore, these particular animals – chickens, cows, sheep, etc, are animals that have specifically evolved, both naturally and through human selection, to exist as livestock. That is, their survival is intertwined with the fact that we eat them and have an interest in protecting them from other predation. Sans humans, and assuming we don’t regulate the number of predators or access they have to the animals, these species are being put at considerable existential risk.
I understand the allure of veganism and understand that for some people, it’s just what they are comfortable eating. But I think claiming that it is superior on any of these three levels is highly suspect.