Calling Out to Vegans

So recently i have decided to attempt to decrease my intake of meat hoping for it to eventually lead to becoming completely vegetarian. Part of my steps toward this is looking up recipes online that i can make next year involving no meat (the reason i will make them next year is my dad used to be a beef farmer, seriously think i could live here and not eat meat?).

The way i look them up is to use an attachment for Firefox called StumbleUpon, which lets me go from random web page to random web page. Because i put vegetarianism as one of my interests i run across vegan website after vegan website. Both sites that offer information on what it is and sites that offer recipes.

My problem with these websites is that there is simply no justification for veganism that i can understand, most of them seem to be born of ignorance.

The way i understand it is vegans do not use animal products because of the fact that they believe this is morally wrong. Now in some instances i can understand this. Is it healthier to cut down on meat consumption? Yes. Is it morally wrong by my standards to feed animals hormones so that they produce more of a desirable product? Yes.

The problem is that there are farmers out there whose products are actually organic and raised in conditions which are not abuses tolerated simply because they increase profit. These would actually be the kinds of places you would want to buy food from if you actually want to effect change into the world.

Furthermore the idea of not eating meat is to keep animals alive correct? Well animals like chickens and cows have been raised by humans for so long that they would die off if no one was paid to keep them, especially considering how much food they eat.

Finally one thing i came across over and over is the idea that dairy cows don't like being milked. I can't comment for other species but i know that the Holsteins my dad used to have would make the same noises they made during birth if he was late for milking them. They have been bred for hundreds of years to increase the milk they produced until it became the amount they produce now which is more than their calves can even eat.

So with these things in mind consider your choices in life. And learn a little more before you judge.