Shitty Ask Lemmy

Because it benefits the wealthy few. Statistically you probably don't even know that you are a fucking herbivore because meat is how you sell more plants than every human on earth can possibly eat; you refine them through animals, and sell it to benighted herbivores who then die fat, diseased, and young, all the while believing they need to eat poison to be strong, healthy, and manly. Your ignorance is serving others and it's not an accident.