> i cannot understand the urge to compete with the pig or cow or chicken (especially) for meat production. they are so good at turning feed into meat. Because

> i cannot understand the urge to compete with the pig or cow or chicken (especially) for meat production. they are so good at turning feed into meat. Because they are living, somewhat sentient, animals that are capable of suffering. And using them as a food source requires that we kill them on a large scale. And because industrial-scale meat production causes huge suffering to the animals caught-up in it, as well as serious environmental damage.