Eating Animals - The Atlantic

I apologize to all of the vegans and raw food vegans who are so fervently passionate about not eating animal products.  I promise, this article is not to offend you or anyone else.

I, myself, was a vegetarian once.  I admit that I wasn't a hard core vegan, however, there was a time when eliminating meat from my diet did my body so much good.  I felt lighter, I felt that I had more energy after two weeks of no meat in my diet.  Perhaps I ate too much meat before, perhaps my body went through a phase where it needed time away from meat or perhaps meat and my body simply went through an aversion period; I don't know.  Sometimes I even wonder if it had something to do with the poor quality of conventional meat.   I don't believe I'll ever know why eliminating meat from my diet was necessary, but back then it was none the less.  After a few years of this, my body started to need meat again.  I actually started having dreams about eating steak.  Luckily, I was very close to a time when organic grass fed beef was available to me.  In about three years after that period, I became a meat eater once again.

I still commend vegetarians and vegans.  For even as a meat eater, I support a movement that you all give generously to every time you eat.  Every time vegans eat, you vote against factory farming and raising sickly animals who are abused and drugged.  It's hard to believe that people actually eat that sickly meat.  It's disgusting to think of the fact that I ate that sickly meat!  I am just as against that part of meat eating as most of you.  I march next to you in that fight even though there are other areas where we may disagree.

I still have my occasional days when I eat nothing except vegetarian meals.  In fact, the dinner that I prepare for my house is mostly vegan.  But I do have carnivorous meals occasionally.  I just make sure I serve my family clean, healthy meat; which is partly the point of the article below.

Eating Animals - The Atlantic