[conanite]

I can submit a patch to an open-source project and everybody benefits ; but if I raise my own animals, the industrial-scale torture continues anyway. How many people need to raise their own animals before the abuse ends? It's not "weak-minded" or even melodramatic to conclude that an animal suffers when it is beaten.

> Even Buddhists in Tibet are perfectly happy to eat meat.

It is generally true that some adherents of religion X regularly do non-X things, in Tibet and elsewhere.