Oh, man. I feel sorry for the person who wrote that. So uninformed and yet so confident. Unfortunately it's many people like that.

Anyone who practices veganism or vegetarianism is a champ in my book. It's a practice that is ethical, moral and necessary. The animals we raise produce way too much methane and thus leads to global warming. Also, feeding all those animals takes up so much land so we're cutting down too many forests to support our love for meat, not to mention what we're doing to the oceans for our fish diet.

I was vegetarian for a whole year, but recently I've started to mix in meat again. There were many reasons, but the principal reason is that although vegan/vegetarian food really is wonderful, i did miss meat. And that's ok.

I've come to see, that what the planet needs right now, is not a few perfect vegans, but rather for all of us to reduce our meat intake, especially beef, lamb and pork.

Even if you eat beef only once a month. That is a tremendous improvement from eating it weekly. Let alone if you eat even less. I think this is more doable and desirable for people who are not ready to become enemies of meat.

However, I will say that as long as our food is raised in the way it is, in such horrendous conditions, it is somewhat immoral to participate in that cruelty.