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Here is an anology of why it is better to eat lower on the food chain. Say humans only ate people. Then you would need to do everything that they are doing but then with millions of more people so they could be food for others.

By not eating meat, you do more to help the ecology of the planet and protect against global warming than doing anything else including switching to a hybrid car. In a groundbreaking 2006 report, the United Nations (U.N.) said that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.

As far as water, in the midwest there is the Ogalalla aquifer. It is an underground resevior of water with billions of gallons of water. They use the water to grow plant foods. In 30 years the water will be used up, 85% of the plant foods grown in the U.S. are to feed the animals that we eat. Unlike produce, the meat and dairy has to be refrigerated from farm to your table.

In all honesty that is very different than you hunting an animal like bisen (deer) in the wild and cooking it for a group of 15 people or catching fish and bringing it to be cooked and served. If the fat person had to run after his meat to kill it, he would not be so fat.

But we can sit at home on the internet while watching TV and have the air conditioning keeping us cool, call a food place and they bring food over for us to eat. Even kings and queens 1,000 years ago did not have it this nice. As Cartman on South Park says, "Sweeet!"