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Animal rights groups try to feel good about themselves by saying that meat consumption harms the environment.  They claim that animals contribute to global warming, and make grandiose claims that going veg has more effect than switching from driving a huge SUV to driving a small hybrid car.  If meat consumption had so much effect on the environment, why would it only start harming the environment now, and not hundreds, or thousands, or even millions of years ago?

Animal rightists and environmentalists like to say things like, "It takes 10 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of meat!" The implication is that raising animals for meat is extremely wasteful.  However, it's nowhere near as bad as they make it out to be.  First, cattle are raised on pasture for most of their lives, eating grass.  Second, when they are fed grain, it is mostly silage, which is completely inedible to humans.

Also, animal rightists like to say that eating meat contributes to starvation in third world countries.  They say if more people went vegetarian, world hunger would end.  However, there is one problem to there statement:  There is already enough food to feed everyone in the world.  Third world countries don't have much access to it because of bad governments and not enough money.