Alright so I've never tried vegetarianism or anything like it untill two months ago when I decided to try it basically for the hell of it. Before this I didn't eat a whole lot of meat just because it didn't really appeal to me so the change wasn't really too much trouble, but now I'm two months in and I don't really know why I'm a vegetarian. I have a lot of trouble justifying it with the normal reasons like oh killing animals is 'bad' or that there are health benefits. Personally I haven't really noticed any health benefits but I was in pretty good shape before. As for the animals I have never really heard a well reasoned arguement as to why eating animals is 'bad' 'wrong' 'morally aborhant' whatever. Most of the arguements just seem to say that animals can feel pain and so they have some sort of intrinsical moral value, but there are a lot of holes I see. I would argue that people can feel pain/pleasure in a probably more direct and experiential way than animals do, and so before the animals became a real concern shouldn't we first help the starving and downtrodden people of the world? Wouldn't they count at least as much as an animal and if so than why aren't most of the vegetarians I know not actively working to help them? Yeah, this is a rant I know and apologize for that but its really early and I'm quite tired. I guess the bottemline of this entire piece is that its quite odd to see so many vegetarians worrying about animals but then being lax when it comes to the people of this world, whom must be at least as worthwhile as an animal.
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