There's more to animal rights groups than promoting vegetarianism (the name 'animal rights' says it all). How do you think the images/videos that the meat industry doesn't want the public to know surface? Their constant whining (as some see it) also makes sure that the discussion continues (this is discussion #7?) in case there are actually people that care but just need more information. Also what would be the good in planting your own vegetables? It won't stop the animals from being killed. I think spending your time promoting animal rights is a lot more helpful than wasting your time planting food (which doesn't help), just so people can't label you a "hypocrite". Besides, there's organic food.
One snowflake more or less won't change a snowstorm but without snow there won't be a storm at all.
"now i feel so much better eating meat."
I assume you're at least partially kidding with this but isn't this exactly what the people your entire post was about do?
You've said it a bunch of times yourself, the main reason for you continuing to eat meat is because you want to. The other stuff is just trying to justify this choice. I don't blame or judge you for this but it remains the main reason, the rest are just variables.
Changes in society usually happen in steps (and I don't see a true animal rights revolution happening). There are plenty of things wrong with the way we live but you can't produce a list of everything we need to change and expect people to do it (not that it's unreasonable but rather that they won't want to). You start with individual points. The meat industry is one of the biggest problems in relation to animals so I'd say it's a good place to start. The seal/whale hunts are horrible but the amount of animals that suffer in those hunts doesn't compare to the amount of animals that suffer in the meat industry. It's not like it's 1 cow per day that gets slaughtered. In 2007 they used 300,000 mice for experiments in Belgium. That's 300,000 animals of 1 particular species, for 1 "field", in 1 shitty, small country. Any person that isn't mentally challenged can see there's a real problem in the meat industry and becoming a vegetarian is usually partly a response to this. What does the vegetable industry have to do with that? Unless you want to risk your health you should already be eating vegetables, no longer eating meat doesn't change anything about that.
One snowflake more or less won't change a snowstorm but without snow there won't be a storm at all.
"now i feel so much better eating meat."
I assume you're at least partially kidding with this but isn't this exactly what the people your entire post was about do?
You've said it a bunch of times yourself, the main reason for you continuing to eat meat is because you want to. The other stuff is just trying to justify this choice. I don't blame or judge you for this but it remains the main reason, the rest are just variables.
Changes in society usually happen in steps (and I don't see a true animal rights revolution happening). There are plenty of things wrong with the way we live but you can't produce a list of everything we need to change and expect people to do it (not that it's unreasonable but rather that they won't want to). You start with individual points. The meat industry is one of the biggest problems in relation to animals so I'd say it's a good place to start. The seal/whale hunts are horrible but the amount of animals that suffer in those hunts doesn't compare to the amount of animals that suffer in the meat industry. It's not like it's 1 cow per day that gets slaughtered. In 2007 they used 300,000 mice for experiments in Belgium. That's 300,000 animals of 1 particular species, for 1 "field", in 1 shitty, small country. Any person that isn't mentally challenged can see there's a real problem in the meat industry and becoming a vegetarian is usually partly a response to this. What does the vegetable industry have to do with that? Unless you want to risk your health you should already be eating vegetables, no longer eating meat doesn't change anything about that.
