How did we evolve into this unethical race of meat eaters?
 
The last thing I want to become is one of these preachy vegans, but then I realized I was a preachy vegetarian and so I must be true to myself. I find I feel troubled lately that I ever ate meat at all, or was not open to being vegan. I really understand we are products of the media and advertising and big firms telling us what to do and what to eat. IT is a huge industry. And not to be insulting but realistically most people lack the imagination to think outside the box. Having raised a child alone I know how hard it was financially, and being vegetarian was hard enough. Still, once I watching this video (link below)  I could never let flesh pass my lips again. I actually cried. TO be so arrogant to assume we have the right and the power over other creatures, to subject them to this absolute terror and cruelty is beyond reason to me. I liken it to how I feel about many cultures of women being systemically killed and maimed by men for greed and power men so desperately need. Ok I know this is about meat and not men, I digress.
 
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=meet_your_meat

I suppose being vegan requires an imagination as far as eating is concerned, but the vast array of wonderful products and things one can eat is never ending. We are so brainwashed as to our bodies not being able to sustain without the protein meat gives us, which is a load of crap, since we are not meat eaters in the first place. But again, we were raised with meat sitting on the table and we in turn teach and behave in the way we are taught. After all why would our parents feed us anything that is not good for us?

Ignorance, plain and simple. Research shows that by leading a vegan diet, the most harmful of cholesterol of all is cut by around 29%. Humans are not naturally designed to continue drinking milk and in fact are the only creatures that continue to do so after being weaned off a mother’s milk.  By studying how humans have evolved over the centuries, we were natural herbivores and it is only over time that we have started to eat meat, so for centuries, people actually lived a healthy lifestyle in the vegan way. 

Meat is loaded with hormones, chemicals to keep it from rotting before you eat it. A true carnivore likes the smell of rotting meat. Fish has high levels of metals because we are polluting and destroying our oceans. Cows are over milked and abused and have constant infections. You are really drinking pus. Think about it.

The below information is from this website – http://www.everythingvegan.co.uk/whyvegan.htm

For The Environment
Farming animals has its problems.  This takes form of global warming, rainforest destruction, water shortages, poorly used energy resources and water pollution and famine.  The way that energy, human resources, water and land is used is not a safe way of protecting the earth's resources.
Water pollution comes from the sewage and manure from the breeding grounds and feeding facilities, all full of chemicals and pesticides from which the animals have been fed which ends up in your drinking water.

Thirty million tons of methane is produced every year which is from manure from farmed animals.  This is a gas which is a significant factor in global warming.

Soil erosion in 40% of the world is caused by grain production which is fed to livestock.  Around five pounds of topsoil is lost for each pound of meat, poultry and dairy produced.

Water shortages are caused due to the meat industry.  For just a pound of beef 390 gallons of water is used to produce it.  This is due to half the hay and grain used to feed cattle is grown on irrigated land.

Shockingly on average ten times more energy is needed to transport and produce livestock than vegetables.

Overgrazing has caused around 10% of America to be transformed into a desert by livestock.  How much more is going to be turned in to desert.  This has knocked out valuable rainforests, leading to global warming.

Since the 1960's 25% of America's rainforests have been destroyed to make way for beef cattle.  For every burger you eat, 55 square foot of rainforest is destroyed in the process.

More people could eat properly if resources that are currently used to farm cattle were used to feed the world.  Cereals and vegetables produce far more nutrients per acre of land than farming meat will ever do, leading to being able to save the world's resources, and feel and look healthier too.