How to Convert a Meat-Eater to Veganism (Part One)

I suppose this part should be called "How NOT to Convert a Meat-Eater"

NOTE TO VEGANS---
Whenever I make a video on this subject, a TON of vegans come out of the woodwork and act morally indignant. That's fine. Just keep in mind that your moral indignation will not convince me to change my diet. The vegans/vegetarians who are willing to have a civil conversation do a much better job.

SOURCES---

EPA on Methane emissions:
http://epa.gov/methane/sources.html
(Manure Management is 5th highest contributor)

Mythbusters clip from the season 6 episode, "Young Scientist Special"

"Deer Hunting: an effective management tool"
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/deerhuntastool.asp

Health benefits for low-meat/no-meat diets:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15702597

Death rate comparison of various diets:
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/3/516S/T7

WIRED article on cooking meat:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/cookinghumans.html


PART 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVLyPMRto68

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[sfwdcivic]

Methane is from farm animals comes from belching and digestive gas just as much or more than just feces. Animal waste runoff, use natural resources (water), fossil fuel pollution for transport and production, land clearing for animal farming, etc. The solution is to not create a problem that requires a solution.

[sfwdcivic]

@Mynearyd LoL! I hear this all the time. So now all of a sudden a meat eater is concerned about the welfare of another living organism.

[starfaery]

@beserkerpatroit1337 Nope. It's my experience.

[schneidercanet]

Also, what's wrong with the "we could feed the world" argument is that we can actually feed the world right now: the amount of food produced in the world is enough to provide every human being with food, what's wrong is that the food isn't distributed properly. This is corroborated by the fact that the number of overweight people is approaching the number of people suffering from hunger.

[schneidercanet]

Methane is not the main problem with meat industry. The main problem is actually carbon dioxide. The problem with that vegan argument is that a very large part of the world's meat is not processed in industries, thus not causing any more significant harm. In my area, for example, all cows are produced in pastures, and the environmental costs of producing the meat are very low: probably lower than the ones of importing fruit and vegetables, given the fact that we don't have much crops here.

[lovebigboobs29]

@jmjamj2010 Meat does not rot in us for many days. It digests fine actually.

[lovebigboobs29]

@Spiralmon Who gives a shit. I would rather it go to feeding cattle then the starving africans. Atleast I have a use for the meat and its delicious!

[lovebigboobs29]

I will never convert to a vegetarian. Meat eater for life!

[watchafunnyone]

oh man your argumentation is bullshit

[Mynearyd]

@neilgedd What about the harm to the plants, anyone considered that?? Kinda overlooked that one. Has any plant gained one ounce of benefit from being treated badly and eaten?