>If eating meat is inherently wrong, then why are there animals SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to do so? Wouldn't that imply that nature itself fucked up?
So what is your stance on cannibalism?
>It made me think - is vegetarian's problem with eating meat the conditions food animals are raised in, or in the simple fact of killing animals to eat them?
I'm a vegetarian because "meat is gross". I neither like the taste nor texture of most meat products (just as I dont like certain fruits). I know about how meat is "produced" and don't find it very appetizing in the best case (just killing and butchering) and outright appaling in the worst (KFC style industrial production).
But this is really only one end of the meat eating spectrum: how many westerners do you know that eat meat of pigs, cows etc. but not cat or dog meat? Muscle meat vs entrails?
Personal taste and cultural conditioning affect meat eaters just as they affect vegetarians.
>>7 said "Veganism is what happens to people who haven't ever needed to go hungry." But the same holds true about being picky about what parts of what animals one eats. Just take look at the cuisines of the world and how they developed.
>[...]someone who protests KFC chickens being raised in inhumane conditions shouldn't have any problem with me shooting ducks to eat.
I don't.