In response to the Oct. 7 letter titled "Vegetarian lifestyle a matter of ethics, no longer a choice": Today, when every year billions of plants in the United States and worldwide suffer extreme crowding, undergo genetic engineering to the point where they are nearly new species, and are subjected to pesticides and other harmful chemicals, we can no longer consider meatatarianism to be a mere personal choice.
Your choice to eat plants or not has huge consequences for plants and for the natural environment.
Those consequences might not be immediately obvious, but mature people are aware of the consequences of their acts beyond their immediate personal surroundings.
Do you see what I did there?
Claiming that eating animals is morally wrong can easily be extended to plants.
If we can't eat animals, why can we eat other living things?
The corn we eat wants to live just as much as the chickens we eat, as does all life.
Pushing your beliefs as the ethical thing to do for mature people is both immature and unethical.
Andrew Palski
freshman-engineering
