"I truly believe that anyone who supports the cruelty and/or death of these animals is either in denial or just chooses to ignore their own unethical behavior." "The animal industries want everyone to believe that vegans want to digress into primitive technology. This simply is not the case. Indeed animal agriculture will keep us in yesterdays inefficient and unhealthy doomed practices." "A very wise gentleman, Pythagoras, had this to say:  'The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.'" "There is no way of consuming any animal product if you want [...]

I'd like to personally thank Ezra Klein for bringing some not entirely unknown information to the mainstream media forefront- meat production causes more greenhouse gases than the entire global transportation sector (as we've known for years now).  As he points out, this fact is grossly ignored- even by organizations such as the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and the Sierra Club.  I know, how can one respect an environmental organization that ignores one of the largest polluters on Earth? Check out Mr. Klein's article in The Washington Post by clicking here. via thewashingtonpost.com

Perhaps a strategy of stepping up to the USDA would be a good start- demand that subsidies to the meat industry be eliminated.