we also get +90 BILLION of animals killed each year for food... which is dumb as believing in magic pills coming from donkeys
- Pandemics including the 1918 "Spanish" flu and COVID
- Antibiotic resistance
- Air, soil, and water pollution
- Deforestation for feed farms and CAFOs
- A major component of climate change
Most people are inhumane and completely reject animal cruelty reflexively, so it's a weak, unpersuasive argument. Meat agriculture and fossil fuels need to be banned but won't because of stupidity, profits, and a lack of willpower.