No, I certainly haven't succeeded at balancing all of that. It's just too overconstrained. In practice, I eat a little of everything (organic, local, fair trade, and some of "none of the above") and I don't feel guilty about not determining the optimal answer for an impossible problem.
I've had a handful of (straight) people ask me "how long have you known [that you're queer]?" I never quite know where to begin with that one either...
So, what's my explanation for liking girls? Um...well... oh, maybe you mean my explanation for eating vegetarian? Right then.
Mostly it's "environmental vegetarianism" (thanks to Wikipedia for providing me with a label I'd never heard of.) In short, producing meat currently takes quite a bit more resources (space, food, water) than non-meat does. I try (in this instance, at least) to consume less in order to do a small part in letting humanity scale more gracefully. That's the main reason. There also some desire on my part to not cause unnecessary animal suffering. As you put it though, things eat each other. I certainly feed my cats meat.
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I've had a handful of (straight) people ask me "how long have you known [that you're queer]?" I never quite know where to begin with that one either...
So, what's my explanation for liking girls? Um...well... oh, maybe you mean my explanation for eating vegetarian? Right then.
Mostly it's "environmental vegetarianism" (thanks to Wikipedia for providing me with a label I'd never heard of.) In short, producing meat currently takes quite a bit more resources (space, food, water) than non-meat does. I try (in this instance, at least) to consume less in order to do a small part in letting humanity scale more gracefully. That's the main reason. There also some desire on my part to not cause unnecessary animal suffering. As you put it though, things eat each other. I certainly feed my cats meat.