[OnyxCougar]

OooOo now I'm mad...had a whole long reply and went to submit it and got a "page can't be displayed". Dammit.

To sum up one of my better posts:

If each individual had to raise/innoculate/feed/slaughter/clean their own cow/chicken/pig to eat meat or raise/water/harvest their own grain in order to eat vegan, we'd have alot of starving folks in the country, and culture would be vastly different.

If every family had to maintain their own farm in order to eat, there would be no metropoli, no urban sprawl. Dad wouldn't be able to go to the city and be a technology advisor or broker or anything else, because he'd be too busy fixing the tractor or doing TB tests on the animals.

If it came down to it, would I kill a cow to eat it's meat? Most Definitely. Do I want to? No. Am I going to go to the butcher tonight and pick up a package of steak? Absolutely. Am I an animal lover? Yes I am.

Being an animal lover does necessarily mean not eating meat.