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adjl posted...

It's always struck me as hypocritical to act morally superior for deciding that some life is worth more than others. Being vegetarian because you don't want to support the factory farming livestock industry? That's fair, a lot of **** happens there that really isn't cool. Being a vegetarian because you find meat icky? Sure, you do you. Being a vegetarian because you've decided that a cow's life is worth more than a tomato's? No, screw you, and don't try to act morally superior for passing such an arbitrary judgement.

Yeah but what do those animals eat? Feed that comes from plants. A lot more plants make up that pound of meat than the plants you need to eat on your own. So not only are you eating an animal that had to die, they had to eat a lot of those same plants. And there's a lot of environmental destruction to make crops to feed those animals.

A tomato is not the plant anyway. It's the fruit of one. You can keep harvesting those tomatoes.
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