1) Meat is not necessary including animal products, especially cheese
2) contributes to health problems
3) Uses a lot more natural resources
4) Factoring farm animals suffer

*Suffering V.S. Killing
--Utilitarian argument: as long as you replace happy animals you kill, its okay (ignoring global and environmental implications)

*Common arguments
1) its natural--> naturalistic fallacy--> many things are natural but wrong
--violent aggression
--selfishness
2) animals can't have rights because they don't possess reason, the capacity to be ethical

*Some animals do exhibit morality
--if true, severely retarded infants wouldn't deserve protection
--also wouldn't be wrong to torture animals for fun (not directly)