That's right Dan. If you say you love animals and say they should be treated in only the most humane fashion possible, then that's great, good on you :-) But if you give your money to factory farmers, battery hen house operators, slaughterhouses etc, then whether you want to admit it or not you are giving explicit approval to animal cruelty. Not only that, you are giving the ones being cruel a great incentive to keep doing what they're doing. There is no getting around it. Paying for meat = paying for animal cruelty.
As for those of you making points about our prehistoric predecessors and gorillas - we are not our prehistoric ancestors nor are we gorillas :-) It is completely irrelevant to those of us living now to bring up the diet of pre homo-sapiens humans. Some other evolutionary ancestors of ours also used to live entirely underwater. Should we start doing this too? The truth is we do not need meat to live healthily. We can get all the iron and protein we need from plant sources, millions of people do it all the time. And if gorillas need animal protein to be healthy, so what? I'm not a gorilla! I'm a human, and I don't need animal protein to be healthy. Cats digestive systems are unsuitable for processing plant foods and should be fed an entirely carnivorous diet. So what? I'm a human, not a cat. As far as I'm concerned, these are all lame-o non-reasons meat eaters think up to make themselves feel better about giving money to animal torturers (or to put it gentler, to make themselves feel better about not changing their life long eating habits).
As for the person who said "if we weren't meant to eat animals why were they made of meat?" - lol that's pretty funny.
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