Martins said

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mutis said	[orig][quote]
If the government wasn't using tax money to make meat and dairy affordable, you would be vegan, too.

I don't know how to say this without coming off as a prick, but you're wrong. At least in your insinuation that the government doesn't subsidize the "vegetarian" industries. Watch King Corn or Food Inc or The Oiling of America. Read The Vegetarian Myth. The average soy/corn/wheat farmer would lose 3 dollars for every acre he/she farms if not for the massive gov't subsidies they receive. I have no problem with people that eat what they want to eat just because but if you're going to try to back it up with "facts," at least make sure they're true.

I don't kill my own meat (yet) but that doesn't mean I condone factory farming of any sort. Whenever possible I buy my meat from a local small farmer. I buy my milk local and raw.