Josh, that was a really great way to put it, very mature and factual! I have a hard time being so calm because I get fuming, but that shows me that you can be calm and get your point across… I loved the facts and your points. kudos.

Since choosing the Vegan lifestyle, I have been able to eat the most delicious, and healthy food ever.. and I am actually saving money in the long run! Add on the Health and its a win-win-win!

Santa will be getting homemade almond milk and vegan cookies from me!! Happy Holidays everyone!

You should actually garner an understanding as to how population growth works. An animals population (except for humans) is entirely dependent upon availability of sources and predators in the area. Since us humans fear things with sharp teeth and claws we have drastically altered the ecosystem by slaughtering them and removing predators from rural ares. Any deer population booms are a result of our meddling to begin with, so us continuing to meddle isn’t going to help.

“If we didnt have dear season people would be hitting them with their cars all the time”. Well considering that a) we already hit them all the time and b) that was a strawman argument that has no factual basis, I have to disagree. There are more viable, ethical and supportive means of preventing auto-animal accidents. They are called animal bridges. They have many in Colorado and the animals learned to use them. In the areas with the bridges non-human animal related accidents have massively decreased. Same applies to Florida, that instead of building an animal bridge they built animal tunnels. It was just as effective as the bridges. As for cost, if our tax money that was allocated to support dairy and animal farming was moved to building these safe havens for wild life the cost would be negligible.

Not to mention Jessica that not only has the FDA approved and validated that a vegan (and vegetarian) lifestyle is more healthy than one with meat and dairy. Or that Nikola Tesla, Thomas Alva Edison and Albert Einstein, the essential fathers of our modern world, were all vegetarian. Not only were they healthy, they helped usher the world into a new era. Please Jessica before you get angry about something and argue against it, at least get your facts and do some research. The Human body does not need meat to survive, sustain or be healthy. And as for dairy, we are the ONLY species on the entire planet (that’s one out of 10,000,000 approx.) that consumes dairy after infancy and the dairy of another species. In fact, it is believed, that nearly 80% of the world is lactose intolerant to varying degrees.

Eating meat is both unhealthy and unnecessary, especially in today’s world. While you may have the choice to do so, you are depriving the non-human animals right to a choice. And that’s why I am a vegan.

Ofcourse the animal population wouldn’t take over because when we stop eating meat it’s not necessary to breed them.
Do you really think the animals will be set free when everyone decides to stop eating animals? Do you really think every peace of corpse you ever eat came from a wild animal instead of a “farm” (better say factory) where it was abused?

Ofcourse you shouldn’t turn wolves and coyotes into vegans, that’s ridicilous. You can’t compare humans with wild carnivores.

ps. My website is in dutch, I’m sorry