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Yes - you raise some good points.

It's not really about health. In this day and age you can be healthy with or without consuming animal products.

It's really about cruelty towards sentient beings and is the biosphere destruction really worth having a strip of bacon or a steak?

Are culinary pleasures more important than not inflicting all this cruelty and damage?

Pigs pass the mirror test and can be compared to small 2-3 year children when it comes to intelligence.

Cows are such gentle and curious animals.

And yet we treat animals as inanimate objects.

As Carl Sagan said 'They are too much like us'

If we ever achieve a Star Trek like society - those future humans will look back at this time the same way we look back at the times when slavery was fully accepted by society.



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