Dear Editor, The earth's population is now 7 billion and growing. The demand for meat products is increasing day by day and companies have to satisfy consumer demand and to do so they forget the morals of intensive animal farming. However, some people around the world are becoming vegetarians, some do it to improve their health and some do it out of religion. After reading the article "Animal, Vegetable, Wretched" by Professor Gary Steiner, I came to agree with many of his well-expressed arguments against meat eating such as: cruelty to animals, animals receiving hormones and antibiotics, or animals receiving they don't live a good quality life. In his essay he constantly repeats about Thanksgiving and the turkey that he didn't live his life to the fullest. In Steiner's article he says that people all over the world always have excuses for why they eat meat and somehow make them believe their lies. constantly explaining the reasons to them. So they ignore the torture and pain that animals endure just to enjoy a meal. They forget all about the poor life the animals had to live while eating their hamburger at McDonald's. Two excuses are given namely that animals do not feel pain and that God created animals for our consumption according to Mr. Steiner. As for animals not feeling pain, I believe the evidence he provides is sufficient and I fully agree with it. If the animal is constantly kept in a cage, how can it think it has a future if its present is pathetic? As for the religious excuse, I believe it may be true from a Christian perspective, but in other religions this is not the case. Religion plays an important role in the vegetarian population. Places like India have the greatest amount of vegetarianism and... middle of the paper... fun. Because humans are not people who eat their own kind and that's why I find the joke very funny. He's also joking about people who eat free-range meat, saying, "We want it to have the best life possible before we slaughter it." The humor is that when this is said it sounds rather strange and strange, as when we think of free range meat then we imagine a positive life for the animal and the irony is in the joke. In conclusion, Mr. Steiner had many strong arguments for vegans and how to be a true vegan, although I believe he has some flaws in his arguments, but overall I really like his arguments and it has changed my view on veganism. I expanded on his ideas about the justifiable excuses people give for eating meat, the animal products that should be stopped, government regulations on animal cruelty laws, and the cartoon Steiner had in his article..