A factual propaganda post for sure.
There has been 47 pages of replies, some daft, some ignorant, some defiant no doubt, some plain stupid.
The answer I believe is ignorance, people enjoy their cosy little lives & don't want to think about the reality of their world, they like being good little worker bees & 9-5 it & because they grow old, deem themselves successful.
Eating meat is part of that mind set - the UK has a rife 'traditionalism' problem, about half the UK thinks that they can, should and only must live the way their parents did, to suggest otherwise is offensive to these sorts, and you often get called a 'leftie' for not doing 'what we've done in the uk for centuries'
It is that mindset, along with rife capitalism, advertising & social conditioning that people think they must drink baby cow food, eat the dead bodies of them, etc.
I think meat eating, like other 'traditions' will go the same way, just as slavery & wide spread murder were once deemed socially acceptable, it's now no longer the case, in 100 years people will look back in the same way at consuming meat (assuming humanity continues to evolve, which is at times, hard to believe these days as we are slipping gradually back to the right).
Its just the way of humanity, you have your traditionalists & you have your progressive thinkers (which are usually the sorts to pay more attention to science/fact), in time meat will drop in popularity as education & social norms change.
Well done for going Vegan, it will make you happier, healthy & help avoid many western diseases such as cancer & heart issues.
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Imagine if having a sharp knife was a get out of jail card for knife crime 
