If you are against animal cruelty, please consider going vegan

Well, for me personally it's not feasible. Potatoes give me painful boils. Wheat makes me retain water, which raises my blood pressure and makes my joints hurt. These are the two primary products that vegetarianism/veganism would rely on. Removing those 2 foods basically leaves a lot of empty vegetables, basically water balloons with trace nutrients. My body doesn't run efficiently on those, it runs well on animal fats. I fully understand that exclusively plant-based diets would be better for the environment and easier to maintain, cow farts and all that. I believe that farming is the key to "solving world hunger" if the politics of it could ever work. I believe this is what caused the "war on fat" when the US came up with the heavily wheat-based food pyramid in the 70's and began condemning fats. I also believe that is what led to the obesity epidemic. This is a whole different conversation, though. I have a theory that some people descend from more of a farmer lineage where they process plant diets well, but other people descend from a hunter/gatherer lineage where they process animal-based diets better. My family falls under the latter, my wife's falls under the former, and their combined diets show that pattern pretty well. That said, I'm no scientist and I don't want to be, so I'll never pursue data about this conclusion. I understand the moral side of it, which is what separates veganism from vegetarianism, but I don't agree. I also identify as a Christian, which subjects me to the bible. The prime passage, as far as I'm aware at this time, is Genesis 1:26: > Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Also see your lengthy argument with @InnocentBystander, I would mostly agree with him on this.