you really want to do this? Personally I wish a discussion of this importance was put where it will get an actual audience and readers can learn something... but whatever.

You start out.

Ok, so you think wasting potential food is bad.

Sure do. I even support "pink slime".

plant foods produce more calories and nutrients than even the most densely packed feedlots. So, hell yeah, man. Let's get rid of all animal farms and replace them with plant farms. We'll be producing more actual nutrients.

I notice you don't give a citation for that and with good reason. Science tell us that supplementing our diet with meat REDUCES the amount of land needed and is healthier for us.

And you picked a fine damn time to tell everybody to start growing more crops to feed themselves when the entire worlds topsoil is degrading at an alarming rate.

You probably don't want that to happen, though, because you think meat tastes good and it gives you short term pleasure.

and thanks to 4 billion years of evolution my body is designed to consume it.

And you're probably a picky eater.

Nope

Do you eat tripe

I try to eat everything, I have been known to eat deer stomach, cow stomach is not at my local grocer sad to say.

offal

Yep. I have had haggis several times. I enjoy being at the top of the food chain and I love trying new foods.

spiders

I have tried many insects, can't wait to give spiders a go.

trotters, oxtails, eyeballs, cow tongues, and pig rectums?

Yum! I love me some hotdogs!

Do you eat road kill?

Oh hell yeah! Back in alabama when I was growing up we used to race to the scene of a deer hit by a car, first person there could claim the meat.

There are so many more problems with what you're talking about.

Oh please enlighten me.... ಠ_ಠ

Empowering developing nations isn't about throwing food at them.

No shit! This is why GMO's are such a wonderful thing, you go into a nation you give them strains of food that would not normally grow in harsh conditions you use the grain to feed them and to set up a livestock industry. You save these people from starvation! This is why Norman Borlaug was a god. HE fed over a billion people who would have starved to death. What the fuck have you done to help people?

We send incredible amounts of food to these nations as is, and besides keeping them alive another day, it doesn't help.

Thats because america wants people depending on them so they will bow and obey while begging for a hand out. I AM AGAINST THIS.

Besides that, I still don't understand why you think that my refusal to be party to an industry that is responsible for so much damage to the environment, human health, and animal well being has anything to do with people who go without food.

If your against damage to the environment then please go elsewhere there are much more serious concerns in other industries such as energy production. Industrial farms will eventually have to repair their land or they go out of business...so do not fret. Human Health? Are you fucking kidding me? Can't wait to see you elaborate on that one. Ah! Animal well being. Now we get to the weakest argument on the table. The fact is terrorist organisations like PETA love to show you camera footage of third world country slaughter houses with no regulations and they point out animal abuse (which I agree should be outlawed and stopped) however they never show you (or inform you) that THERE ARE LAWS IN AMERICA TO STOP INHUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS Here is a look inside an american slaughter house where the animals DO NOT SUFFER.

It's not like if I buy a steak that I am putting food in anyone's mouth.

Yeah, but at least you aren't a pompous prick who takes a piss on people less fortunate than you.