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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2609528" data-attributes="member: 16989">As someone who grew up in farm county, I find empathy for a chicken or cow hard.  If D&D TRULY wanted to give chickens an accurate Int score it would have to be .0002.  If you really can't bear to eat meat do to empathy with your dinner, you then need to make sure any mouse you get in your house you live-trap and release into the wild, as any mouse is smarter and equally deserving of empathy as any farm animal.(Not codeming vegetarians, just pointing out when you make a concious decision there are sometimes un-thought of conditons that happen.  Such as no beef = no leather.  Of if you think it is wrong to kill animals, that should apply to the little critter eating your flour & leaving little presents behind).I've been decreasing the amount of meat in my diet (and choosing healthier cuts of the meat I still eat), but am trying to include more and more veggies in my diet.This is easy where I live as we have lots of local farms to buy produce from.  The vegetables in the supermarket ain't fit to eat, or goes bad in just a few days.  We aslo get our meat from local farms.  Open range-fed open meat is soooo much better than anything a factory farm can put out.  However, those farms have meat 12 months a year.  Veggies peter out around the end of Oct.  I've never cared for canned/frozen, so our meat diet increases when all the vegtables go bye-bye.</blockquote>

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