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Okay. Here's my friendly debate.

Being vegetarian decreases the chances of colon cancer, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol.

Also, most people would never dream of cramming 11 egg-laying hens in a file drawer-sized cage, ripping the testicles out of a screaming piglet, or cutting the throat of a cow as it stares back at you with it's big brown eyes. But it happens, and you're eating the animals that go through this.

Did you know what happens in a slaughterhouse? Well, the cows that don't die after traveling miles and miles through any weather - being starved the whole way - are shot in the head with a bolt gun, hung up by their legs, and taken onto the killing floor, where their throats are cut and they are skinned. Many cows remain conscious through the whole process. A man was quoted saying, "They are slaughtered piece by piece."

By eating meat you're supporting this. The end.

It's cool. I am too. Shhhh.
As for health reasons? Um, um...
Lots of major epidemics have come from our meat eating?
Like, the Spanish Influenza was a type of bird flu.
By not chilling with the chickens, we probably won't get it.

Then why do they put carrots in nearly every type of dog food? confused

I don't think I could say it any better than Panda did.
Well, here's a bit more.
There's a type of beef or steak or some kind of dead cow meat, where the calves are put into cages where they can't move at all the minute they are born. They are force-fed. They develop no muscle because they have never moved in their lives. All this to make your dead cow extra-tender.
Chickens are put in cages too small for them to turn around in. They are stacked on top of each other. They live in their own, and each other's, excrement. Their beaks are cut off to prevent fighting. All male chickens are killed. Their lights are left on all day so they will lay more eggs.
Also, rainforests are being cut down to make grazing land for cows owned by the suppliers of hamburger chains. It's likely that Chico Mendez, an advocate for the Amazon, was murdered by an assassin sent by one of these suppliers, although the crime has never been solved.

Ailinea Wrote:

Dogs like humans are omnivores too. They can digest carrots. My dog loves them. Of course he also likes my cats poop so I guess that doesn't say too much lol.

If you look at contents on many dry and canned dog foods, its just not made up of meat. There is rice, carroots, grains, and other stuff. It just depends on what you buy. On the eating random foods, my dog also pulls apples off of our apple tree and eats them. A book I read a while ago explained that a dogs tounge has less taste buds then a human does but many of the taste buds help the dog taste sweet. That might also explain why my dog pulled all of the lollypops out of the Easter basket I had, unwrapped them, ate the candy, and then left the wrappers and sticks all over the floor. But I suppose, like some humans have individual eating behaviors, so do dogs. Just don't feed your dog canned corn because it comes out the same way it does for humans. I know this because a dumb lady that brought her dog for boarding asked to put that in her dogs food. And lucky me I got to clean up the mess afterwards. sweatdrop

Oh and even if the dog just chews apples and carrots, it makes a good alternate chewie. Instead of nasty rawhides. It can help keep their teeth clean. Just let them outside with it though so you don't have to clean up the bits of food on the floor.