Vegan

Humans are omnivores. As organisms we've survived and thrived by continuously adapting to our changing conditions, habitats, and availability of food. Our bodies have evolved over time to eat animals (or to eat drink their milk or eat their eggs) and to eat plants (vegetables or fruits).

Because we are living in a time when all sources of food are plentiful, and our habitats are stable (and this is the only time in human history that this has happened) people have been able to choose the kind of food they want to consume.  As long as you make sure you are getting all the right vitamins, it doesn't matter whether you choose to stick to a plant-based or meat-based diet.

Not sure I agree that all sources of food are plentiful?  We are destroying the oceans, cutting down the rain forests to allow cattle to graze and generally killing the world.  We seem to be able to feed all the animals but there are people still going hungry.

Not sure I agree that all sources of food are plentiful?  We are destroying the oceans, cutting down the rain forests to allow cattle to graze and generally killing the world.  We seem to be able to feed all the animals but there are people still going hungry.

I think that if you are worried about food being fed to animals while there are people who still go hungry, there are people who eat a massive amounts of food and become morbidly obese, so why don't these people share food with those who starve and have nothing to eat at all? We can feed all these animals and all these morbidly obese people, yet there's people who still starve. I mean surely if we have enough food to feed the morbidly obese, we have enough food to feed the hungry as well.

I think there's just an unequal way of distributing food throughout the world. First world countries can eat until they're morbidly obese, and in 3rd world countries the money and food are so scarce that it's hard to survive.   

Food being plentiful has nothing to do with our insane disregard for the ecology of the Earth as we experience it today. When was the last time you were treated for starvation or the effects of malnutrition? It's hardly a disputed fact that food production has reached its zenith, or that food availability is at its highest level since humans first started dabbling with agriculture.