GO VEGETARIAN!

Why life without meat attracts more people? For health reasons? Respect for animals? Because it looks good? 

Ethically speaking, vegetables have all the glory. In recent years, vegetarians - and an even greater degree vegans - have dominated discussions about ethical consumption. For the philosopher, Peter Singer, whose publication "Animal Liberation" in 1975, revived an international movement, and novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who in 2009 wrote the best selling book "Eating Animals," those who deny the flesh argue that we consume is a crucial ethical decision. To be fair, they say, we must abandon the burgers and join them.

In response, those who love meat have surprisingly little to say. They say, of course, that, well, love meat or meat that is deeply imbued in our habits, culture or cuisine, or that is nutritious, or even that carnivores have been dedicated to improving the lives of animals, improving they eat, how they live and how they are slaughtered. Few, however, attempt to answer fundamental ethical question: if indeed eating animals in the first place, at least where human survival is not at stake.

For centuries seen as the healthier item, juicy and valued diet, meat seems to have passed the point. For two reasons. The first - more justification used by those who become vegetarian - is a health concern. The proponents of vegetarianism say that eating meat does not reduce mortality and the incidence of hundreds of diseases. The second is the ethical concern increasingly frequent with the killing of animals. Each of these two justifications deserves a careful analysis. The second most interests me, which is why I stopped eating meat.

The second justification usually employed for vegetarianism is based on ethical and environmental arguments. Enslaving and killing animals is a variant of racism. Submitting is the weakest only because it belongs to another species. No need to say more!

Do not ask me why I'm a vegetarian. Ask why you are not.