1) My health. Animals are fed anti-biotics, hormones and food that is not wholesome. One example is that the feces of cows is being recycled and fed to the cows. True, this does provide the needed nutrition to the animal – but do I want to eat the animal that is grown like this?
2) Morally contemptible. I’m sure when anyone of us looks back we think how cruel apartheid was. How cruel slavery was. Yet many people who lived through those years thought it completely acceptable. It is so cruel the way we bring up animals in factories (also called farms). A good book I read was: “The pig who sang to the moon” which provides great motivation for us to reconsider the part we play in this world.
3) Destroying the Earth. The land that cows graze on can be more productively used for vegetables. Every day, more of the rain forests disappear to make space for grazing land. We’re also decimating the diverse number of creatures that inhabit this planet that we SHARE and not OWN.
