Question of The Day, December 29, 2012 ~ Views On Eating Meat ~
What are your views on eating meat?
I ate meat for 55 years and loved it.
I have been strict vegan for 2years and 7 months, and am getting used to it.
I still find it difficult, particularly when cooking a roast for the rest of the family, and I have been 2 years since my last piece of meat.
There is a lot of evidence that eating meat substantially increases the risk of cancer, and having been diagnosed terminal cancer, going vegan made sense to me. I have collected on my life insurance and am enjoying spending some of it.
In terms of the size of footprint on the planet, eating vegan should require about 1/10 of the land area and water that eating meat requires, and actually can have a negative greenhouse gas emissions.
Being vegan should allow us to have 20 billion people on the planet, and still have half of the land area in non-human modified ecosystems.
So I am happy not eating meat.
