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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I feel no moral responsibility to be vegetarian or vegan. CMV.

I understand that others choose to be vegetarian or vegan for moral reasons. In many cases, the animals being raised are mistreated horribly. In many cases, they are subjected to awful living conditions and exposed to chemicals that we still do not fully know the effects of (or, worse, we do). 

I respect people who choose to become vegetarian or vegan for moral reasons, as I see that they have done research on a subject that is important to them, come to a certain conclusion regarding ethics, and changed their lifestyle accordingly. I recognize and commend this. I simply don't share the conclusion. 

I believe that there are other ways to face the ethical issues raised by so many of these farms. I believe there are sources of meat or animal products that are not unnecessarily cruel to the animals.

Edit: In response to some of the most common arguments I'm seeing.

* *"Why should the lives of these animals be worth less to you than those of humans or your pets?"* To settle the "humans" bit, I will simplify matters a bit by saying that my religious beliefs place human life above the lives of other animals and requesting that we leave it at that, to prevent this turning into a different conversation altogether (and one I've read on this sub recently). As for pets, I've kept the pets I've kept because doing so enriches my life and/or the lives of those I care for and has a positive effect on our mental health. I am not innately opposed to eating other animals, even very similar ones, because of this.

* *"Eating meat supports an immoral industry."* Only if I buy my meat from those immoral sources. There are other ways to come by meat or animal products and places to buy it that do not torture the creatures while they're alive.

Also, I'm seeing a lot of unsupported claims on here. I would appreciate it if you could cite your sources.
gpt
Consider a broader argument, not about cruelty, but about waste.  It takes about ten times the resources to produce meat than it does to make grain or vegetables.  It's often asked why it is anybody in the world is going hungry when we here in the US grow enough food to presumably feed everybody on Earth.  Trouble is, most of that food is fed to food at a considerable loss of consumable calories.  With our population ever growing and our arable lands stressed from overuse, it's arguable that broad acceptance of a vegetarian/vegan diet could help make the world a better place for everybody.