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I am a carnivore. I am an obligate carnivore. I am a human being, a highly evolved superpredator that's spent the past 5.-odd million years evolving to get up here.
I like meat. I like the way it tastes, the energy it gives me, and yes, I am a killer ape: hunting is -fun-. OTOH, I also slaughter my own chickens, and my family raises our own beef cattle. I know where my food comes from; I've washed its' blood out of my jeans and hair.
On the other hand, I will flap my wings and migrate south for Winter before I trust anything coming out that crowd of meddling, micro-managing, freedom-destroying Statist control-freaks at the UN. If the UN wants to recommend veganism, fine: UN delegates and scientists who push this can go first. No animal products of any kind: let's start with all those nice leather-covered chairs in the UN hall. I'd like one for my office.
A further question: if livestock production is such a huge problem, why did not the enormous herds of ruminants (bison, deer, antelope, etc) roaming the pre-Columbian Americas not cause this problem? Likewise the equally impressive herds of large animals which inhabited Africa until the 1890s?
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