[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

It bugs me that people eat animals too - mostly because it's so stupidly inefficient from a nutritional standpoint. We could feed a lot more of the world's population on a vegetarian diet but whatever - we've got the system and the conventions we have and people have the right to do what they want, although I kinda wish we were more humane and less barbaric / boorish about it. As a disclaimer I've been vegetarian for about 25 years and credit it for being in as good of health as I am (once upon a time I had some not-so-insignificant health issues).

I can't deny that eating animals is less beneficial in the health perspective. Being a vegetarian is also a greater use of the world's resources.

In the case of the video though, it seems that she wasn't concerned about health or world hunger but was concerned with the feelings of a chicken and how it was murder to eat "her little girl" (which lends me to wonder if she was grieving over how offended she felt about animals). She had some very nice trendy clothing on where as she could have bought Walmart clothes and donated the difference to feed the poor.

As far as where to draw the line is concerned... Air conditioning uses ungodly amounts of resources that could be used to help people with no heat. It is not a necessity. Money spent on organic foods could be spent on feeding the homeless (at a mildly possible expense to my health)... We make choices as to what is important to us. What I consider to be a necessity is pompous luxury to 75% of the rest of the world.