Commentary: "Do You Eat Baby Animals?"

I thought that since this a vegan blog, that I would incorporate more commentary on pages I read online dealing with animal rights, veganism/vegetarianism and environmentalism. To be honest, I do not have a problem with those who choose not to become vegan or vegetarian. However, I do have a problem with the condescending tone that most non-vegans have against veganism. The comments in this article to be asinine and hypocritical. The writer states that she does eat baby animals and she enjoys their flesh. I do not see how this is any different than supporting the factory farming practices adult animals suffer from.

I found the comments in the article to be unnecessary, especially the argument about whether or not humans were naturally meant to eat meat. The argument is more over semantics than anything. I personally believe that modern man is not meant to eat meat. Most cultures in the past at very little of it, even going so far as to being vegetarian. Even the cultures that are omnivorous do not have factory farms that become mass slaughter houses for animals. They also did not have children in their cultures entering puberty at nine and ten years old. I think the whole argument that "humans are meant to eat meat" can be said of the sense of entitlement that humanity has over this planet. It is also an excuse to not better one's own health, let alone the environment for human beings and other species on this planet.

My argument is that it does not matter if the animal is a baby or an adult, the whole idea of supporting the multibillion dollar meat industry at the expense of animal suffering should at least cross somebody's mind when they pick up a steak with their fork or cut through a slab of veal with their knife.