Arman’s Reviews > Eating Animals > Status Update

Most simply put, someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning.

according to the UN, the livestock sector is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, around 40 percent more than the entire transport sector __ cars, trucks, planes, trains, and ships __ combined. The most current data even quantifies the role of diet: omnivores contribute seven times to the volume of greenhouse gases that vegans do.

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
This is something which had a huge influence on me when I became vegan a few months ago.