User blog comment:Elestan Larcalaite/Becoming Vegan/@comment-27723099-20150416211118

Well, I could tell you many reasons why it's bad to be vegan, but I guess I shouldn't post them here.

Just one being said: If you don't want to eat meat (or animal products) because the animals live in poor conditions in the mass-production and it disgusts you, what else happens with plants? There are thousands of plants planted as close to each other as possible, we push them up with chemicals and steal their  fruits (you could say their unborn children) and cut them off before they can completely grow up. We genetically modify them to get more fruit and less unusable plant parts. We burn down forests, killing millions of plants (and animals), to get new farmland. I don't see a big difference to animal mass production. But nobody cares about it because "plants have no feelings" and we can't empathise with them because we are animals and they are plants.

Personally I don't even like meat that much and I would have no problem to live without it, but I eat meat mainly because it's usually healthier than food from plants. It contains proteins similar to ours and more valuable fat. It contains all that we need because it's genetically so close to us.

The solution is not to strictly stop eating meat but to control its origin, like others have said already too.