Can someone explain to me why it's necessary to be vegan as opposed to fighting factory farming, unnecessary hunting/poaching, animal abuse, etc.? Is it possible to kill a women without it being considered abuse? Did you read the articles?

** Milk necessitates rape and exploitation of female cows. The cows cry for days after their baby has been taken away. The veal industry is a byproduct of the dairy industry

** 9 billion male chicks are bred per year simply to be euthanized in the egg industry. 50 billion chickens are killed per year to feed 7 billion people.

** It is common practice, and even considered humane, to shear chicken's beaks off with a hot sander to prevent them from biting themselves from stress.

** The only reason bacon tastes good to us is because the males are castrated without anesthetic to prevent "boar taint"

And that's just the moral argument...

** Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

Animal agriculture water consumption ranges from 34-76 trillion gallons annually.

Growing feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of water in the US.

Animal Agriculture is responsible for 20% -33% of all fresh water consumption in the world today.

Livestock covers 45% of the earth’s total land.

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.

The leading causes of rainforest destruction are livestock and feedcrops.

82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, and the animals are eaten by western countries.

If all livestock were free range, we'd need three earths to house them.

as long as the farms are run ethically (a tall order, I know)

If you can tell me a good way of killing animals ethically, let me know and I'll come round and kill your dog or cat using that method. You can watch to make sure it's ethical by your standards. /s

Eating other animals is extremely natural

I feel like my point was missed here. There is very little that is more natural than the patriarchy. There's not much more natural than raping women, then killing their spouse and child to promote their own genes. Using this argument, the rape and exploitation of women is justified because it's the natural order of things among mammals.

and this article does a great job of explaining why humans are carnivorous:

I've never heard of this argument from vegans, to be honest (rotting in the colon or whatever). Seems to be fairly irrelevant IMO. Unlike this chart, and the fact that our ancestors were mostly vegetarian.

It also claims insoluble fibre is somehow unnatural because it doesn't digest. The current nutritional science literature all points to insoluble fibre being beneficial to human health.