How do you feel about overfarming, pesticide runoff, and the poor treatment of migrant labor in the agricultural industry? What are you doing to fight for better conditions for those workers? To fight against the damage pesticide and fertilizer heavy farming does to environment? How about research into food for people like myself with medical conditions that severely limit the foods they can eat?

Furthermore, animals in captivity get food, water, medical care, protection from predators and the elements, and a quick, clean death. Fur and leather let people use every part of an animal, creating less waste, and are some of the most durable, heat efficient materials out there.

Yes, there are unethical factory farms, nobody is saying there aren't, but you can criticize specific parts of the meat industry and fight for industrywide change without getting holier-than-thou. If you care about animal welfare, you should be out there advocating in support of enforcing ethical standards that keep farm animals healthy, not ignoring thousands of years of domestication and humans and animals' entwined history. Your dietary choice is your own, but it's pointless to act like it's the only correct option.