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As an animal activist and cooking instructor, I've pretty much heard every excuse in the

book for why people continue to eat animals. There seem to be as many excuses to eat meat

as there are land animals killed for such a purpose. And that's 10 billion. There are

10 billion animals killed in the United States each year for human consumption, by the way.

So I may not have heard 10 billion excuses, but I've heard pretty close to that number.

And I have yet to hear a convincing reason. I don't think people really give much thought

to the justifications they create. Or rather, they've never really been challenged, I think,

when they say things like, if we didn't kill and eat animals, the world would be overrun

with them. Or these incisors in my mouth proved that we were meant to eat animals. We can

talk about those arguments another time. But for now, I would rather focus on one that

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