@bold: I understand your point and, it is a good one but try to gain perspective by imagining an evening at an underground cockfight in which perhaps 8 roosters die and lets say that amount in one country amounts to a few hundred perhaps thousand a year and then compare that to the 982 million chickens that are killed annually in the U.K. It's a discussion comparable to dog lovers crying over an abused or ate dog on the internet while eating eggs, meat and dairy the same day fully aware that animals as smart- or even smarter than dogs are abused by grotesque numbers as compared to abused dogs. It's a disconnect.
To own and raise cattle in third world countries as a means of survival, I understand the plight, but it's illogical when you think of how much water and crops go to feeding a cow. Eggs I can understand as its the least oppressive form of livestock farming, but piggs, sheep and cows? Like many on here, you might be from India. Assuming you are, lets mention some nutritionally dense plants native to India that easily outpace what animal protein has too offer.. Moringa being one of them. As a tree that barely needs any attention, it offers 4x the amount of calcium that cowsmilk has to offer, 3x the potassium that bananas offer, 2x the protein that yoghurt has to offer, 7x the vitamin C that oranges have to offer and the list goes on.
Turn one small grassfield where some cattle would roam into a permaculture food forest andy you're set.
You might originate from another country but now you live in the U.K. which is one of the leading vegan countries in the world. Plenty of vegan alternatives hitting the market there, so if you know the horrors of the industry, whats your excuse?
