Omnicreed

Believe me it's a touchy subject for anyone, even me, since I respect my vegetarian-barbarian brethren and their credo. 

I'm usually at a loss as to how to justify my own dietary habit of remaining an omnivore; hence keeping silent on the matter. [So here goes nothing]—

  There's a weird sort of backwards-appearing philosophy that I find myself adhering to more the older I get, and it can be roughly exemplified by deforestation:   In my younger days, I thought the razing of forests was akin to "ripping the lungs from the planet" or otherwise violating nature, etc.   Nowadays, I feel almost the opposite:  if we don't raze the damn forest at a respectable rate (take lightning as a good example) it'll overtake civilization and we'll wake up in the morning with crabgrass growing out of our eyesockets. 

Ok so I implemented a bit of hyberbole to get my point across there—hopefully, y'all understand where I'm coming from with that.  The point being there is always a particular context we must keep in perspective.  

The point being, there needs to be a balance—and yes, militant vegan activism is necessary today  as  leverage to help restore that balance—but  I just think we're omnivorous by nature, that  life feeds on life,  and it's eat or be eaten, until such extreme movements by which 'abandoned balances' may be restored should themselves then be watched most carefully, for the continued implementation of such outdated methods may in turn become the new problem to overcome.

Balance and moderation remain the traits we must ever strive to maintain.