Originally posted by: Jfrag
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: Jfrag
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: Jfrag
Good question. I am interested to know this as well.
It doesn't make any sense to me since we are omnivores and all.
Well, if you look at the overall cost in resources to produce a pound of meat it make some sense. Think about how much grain and water you have to run through a cow before you finally slaughter it. Then think about how many people all that grain could theoretically feed.
Why does it have to be a cow?
If I go catch a fish and eat it, I am still eating meat... sans the cost you mentioned.
I would much rather have a medium cooked steak as to a loaf of bread any day... so damn the costs... I earn my money and I am willing to pay it for said steak.
The cow was an arbitrary choice, but I'll point out that a LOT of the fish you eat is farmed unless you go out and catch it yourself (which most people do not). Besides, it's not about cost to you, it's about not gorging yourself on a steak when the resources that went into that steak could be feeding those in need. I know that's just way too hippy for most of you here so I'll just leave it at that.
Ok, wrong on the fish comment. Fish in particular is one thing that I do eat more of what I caught than what I bought... but that is neither here nor there. (Frog legs would be another.)
You assume much. I do not gorge myself on steak. I do not gorge myself on food. Period. I eat responsibly and pay for it with my own dollar and you forget that even if I did it is supply and demand that drive our economy. I demand a certain type of food the supplier supplies it. Pure and simple. And before you go off on a tangent that I can't understand about giving to those who have gone without. I have plenty of donations that I make whether it be in the form of blood for the Red Cross, or cans of non-perishables to various organizations... not even mentionioning cash donations to others. (Go ahead and blame it on a tax write-off rather than genuine good-heartedness... I'm waiting.)
You forget that we produce enough in this nation to feed the entire world many times over. Cattle farmers do use up some of the resources, but not near enough to create famine or destitution on the scale you speak of. You forget that some go hungry for lack of motivation, some because of tyrants(ala somalia in early '90's), others because any number of other reasons, but I guarantee you that the food supply isn't depleted because of people who eat meat.
The hippy comment... please stop acting so much more enlightened than the rest of us... you still have to take your pants down to take a dump... you're still human... not better than. You act like it is only you who have a opinion that matters... you are wrong.