I read really different thing and what suprises me that most of you still think about advantages for animals when you do not eat meat, what a altruism.
Me personally can't and do not want to convince you, I do not eat meat because of personal benefits that affects: my energy level, my health, my indepence for animal instincts like hunger, and some small but relevant side effects that are hard to describe.

You will never understand this lifestyle by reading anything(medical journeys, scientific facts)
You are under the pressure of the influence of what you eat since you are young.
There is always the theory but the practical is not communicable.
It is a fact that meat has extensive effects just like some drugs because it tastes so good and trust me trying to life with out it will start a withdrawal. And you are in charge of it certainly since you can think.

When you think you do something normal and accepted by your human body, you are in a manipulation since generations.

You are what you eat, you eat what you can
You are animals.
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