" I know many people far more upright and conscientious than I am who disagree, who think nothing of it. I know that vegetarianism runs agains mankind's most casual assumptions about the world and our place within it. And I now that factory farming is an economic inevitability, not likely to end anytime soon.
But I don't answer to inevitabilities, and neither do you. I don't answer to tradition and I don't answer to Everyone. For me, it comes down to a question of whether I am a man or just a consumer. Whether to reason or just to rationalize. Whether to heed my conscience or my every craving, to assert my free will or just my will. Whether to side with the powerful and comfortable or with the weak, afflicted, and forgotten. Whether, as an economic actor in a free market, I answer to the god of money or to the God of mercy. "

― Matthew Scully , Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy