I used to believe Veganism was stupid too. I remember when I was little during Easter and you couldnt eat meat on every Friday. I was going crazy trying to figure out what to eat that didnt involve any meat!
But now, as Im older Im begining to see the benefits for vegetarianism and Veganism.
Did you know sooner or later we will all need to be vegetarians anyway? The economic costs of what we are doing is astronomical. I did a course on this at my universaity and it basically takes four thousand pounds of wheat to bring a cow from childhood to adult hood where it weighs only 500 pounds, including the parts that arent usually eaten (hooves, intestines, ect). If I rememeber correctly it takes 50-100 (forgot which) gallons of water to create one sports bottle of water. That isnt just the water it involves transportation and manufacturing the plastic for the bottle and paper for the label and such but its just crazy!
I gotta read the China study. However I dont want to read it until I can actually start on the diet and being where I am with no health food stores, no vegan restraunts, and being a college guy I cant really commit to the lifestyle yet.