1. Eating meat is part of nature. We need to do everything the natural way. That’s why we never use modern appliances and computers or never slather chemicals all over our bodies in an indoor waterfall everyday. Besides, eating plant products is ENTIRELY unnatural. 2. Eating meat will make you strong. And that’s why strict vegetarian animals such as pandas, horses, and cows, to name a few, are such weak, skinny, scrawny, anemic, helpless animals. (http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/?page=bios) 3. Meat is the only true source of protein. We all know that the millions (and probably billions due to lack of money to afford meat) of vegetarians through time just collapsed and died from protein deficiency. 4. We should eat meat because it’s tradition. We’d be forsaking our culture if we didn’t. Where would we be if we ever forsook the time-honored traditions of slavery and forcing women to work in the home and denying them access to education? 5. God told us it’s OK to eat animals. It’s in the bible! And that’s why our society heartily condones infanticide (1 Samuel 15:3, Psalms 135:8 & 136:10, Psalms 137:9), child sacrifice (Judges 11:29-40, Genesis 22:1-24), polygamy ( Genesis 4:19), slavery (Leviticus 25:44-46), and putting people to death for working on the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36). It’s in the bible, the ultimate moral authority! 6. There is no point for animals existing unless they exist for us to use. And that’s why our raisons d’être would become completely null and void, and we would gladly submit to an intellectually and physically superior alien race who wanted to eat our own flesh. Might is right – the only valid way of life. 7. Farm animals would quickly overrun the world if we didn’t kill them to eat them. It’s a miracle a few billion people had the space to exist before we started mass producing animals solely for meat by forcing them to breed or artificially impregnating them by the millions daily (http://www.animalvisuals.org/data/slaughter/?y=2008). Animals were EVERYWHERE! 8. Animals want to be killed to feed us. You can tell by the way they act when it’s time to die. We as humans, too, always scream in terror and thrash about and try to run when we’re having a good time!! (http://www.meat.org/) 9. Our bodies are just like a carnivore’s! That’s why we have alkaline saliva to digest starches, which are strictly found in plants; a very long digestive tract so animal flesh, which has no fiber, can sit and rot for days; and very sharp teeth and claws for biting into an animal and killing it with our bare hands. We also can outrun most animals at our blazing top speed of ~25 mph and tackle them. We were designed to kill! Even our babies instinctually try to kill animals. (http://www.naturalhealthwizards.com/Ideal_Diet.pdf , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zhL1YUd8Q ) 10. Animals don’t have feelings. They are just big pieces of meat – big pieces of meat who just happen to cry and mourn for days when their young are taken from them (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kM387cI4rk) or when they lose a companion of the same or a different species and excitedly dance when they see a beloved companion, human or nonhuman animal. Nope, all those are programmed, mechanistic, reactionary responses that are completely unlike our very divinely special human emotional responses. 11. Americans are so very vibrant and healthy from our meat-centric diet, which is why we have the some of the highest rates of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in the entire world. We eat more meat than nearly every other country in the world, so we are the healthiest. What would we do without it? 12. Most importantly, meat tastes freakin’ good. All of our morals are based on what our fleeting pleasures and hungers dictate us to do. That’s why we exalt serial killers, rapists, and pedophiles. 13. Eating meat is a sacred personal choice and right. Just as deciding to dump loads of contaminated animal waste in someone’s backyard and to unnecessarily and inefficiently use up untold amounts of fresh water is our very own personal choice that has no ramifications on anyone else in this world – human or animal. ( http://www.alternet.org/environment/134650/the_startling_effects_of_going_vegetarian_for_just_one_day/ , http://www.goveg.com/environment-WaterWeDrink.asp ) Happy meat eating! Cheers, carnivores! <3 /sarcasm Disclaimer: To be fair, I understand if you have been brought up eating meat, and you are used to it, so you might not be inclined to change overnight. In this case, do SOMETHING. Start to cut back and learn more about vegetarianism. Find enjoyable recipes and products. Talk to other vegetarians. Just don’t close your eyes, claim ignorance or weakness, and do nothing. By the way if you think I’m pushing my beliefs on you, you’re right, but I’m also presenting facts to you. And while you may not be actively pushing your beliefs on me, you ARE pushing your beliefs about your right to eat meat on an animal who cannot give consent for you to eat him or her. But in that case you’re not pushing just ideas and morals, you’re actually pushing your beliefs so far that you’re knowingly allowing a life to be unnecessarily terminated on your behalf. | 
