Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

Basically for all the reasons already mentioned.

I have tried several times in the past to go vegan, and it's worked about as well as the times I've tried to start eating healthier in order to bring my BMI down from over 35. I know both are the right thing to do (and would actually go hand-in-hand), but for whatever reason I can't stick to it.

However, I seriously doubt that we'll ever convince the whole world to stop eating animal products, so I think it's very important to advocate for more humane methods of raising and slaughtering food animals and companion animals (puppy mills). Factory farms are horrific. The hunters in my family bother me a bit with their dead mounted trophies, but the animals they've killed lived better lives than the ones whose deaths were paid for by my grocery purchases.