Lost jobs because there's no meat? Try lost jobs because there is no slavery. We all readjusted and the U.S. survived. See, we can recover after we change socially. Got heart attacks, obesity, stroke, diabetes? Sure do here in the U.S., but that's because we got meat ("Campus 'meatout' supporters full of baloney," March 21). Think of the money we can save on health care if we dumped meat and got healthy.

But, then using Andrew Hanelly's logic, that would be bad because think of all the hospitals that would have to close and all the doctors and nurses who would have to find other jobs, not to mention the giant medico pharmaceutical industry that would collapse. Hanelly would have us all sick and obese, polluting the earth with the factory farming industry, happy and unaware of the cruelty inflicted on animals and ourselves. But isn't that the American way?