In my opinion we can't do much about the fact that the majority of us must
eat meat. What about those people who can't afford to buy expensive
vegetarian/organic/free range meat? It's very easy to condemn them, and say
'Well, go without electricity or something...as long as no animals die'. If
you do have the money and strong convictions to forswear animal products,
good for you, but I find Peta to be unreasonably condemning. I know that in
my country, (Australia) we have people living in the worst conditions in the
world, worse than all those countries that are on the news all the time for
war and famine. They probably don't have much time or energy to worry about
how their sauasages were killed. For myself, I can't afford to feed my
family vegetarian diet or free range and certified humane meat. Because I
have to feed a family of four on approx. $10/meal max. Am I to be condemned
for this? Or would you rather know that our long-term goal is to reach the
point where we can buy our own land, and live an environmentally sustainable
life, knowing that what we eat had as good a life as we could give it.
Despite the good intentions of western society, who can afford to worry
about such things, farming animals for meat will continue long after our
civilization has gone. We do the best we can in our own lifetime, but I
disagree with judging others and expecting them to live up to the standards
we congratulate ourselves for maintaining.