Eating meat gets vegetarian’s goat

Re “No Kidding: Americans Acquiring Taste for Goat,” Nov. 21

While “some California farmers see gold in goat,” I see unnecessary slaughter, heart disease and cancer, and a waste of resources. Raising animals for human consumption compromises the air, water and land where the animals live. Eating meat contributes to the chronic diseases that have become epidemic in developed countries. And with so much killing in the world, why people continue to pay others to kill living beings for them is beyond me.

More peace-loving people are choosing a nonviolent, healthy, Earth-sustaining vegetarian diet. I am among them, and I am sad for the goats and the people who plan to raise, slaughter and eat them.

PATTI BREITMAN

Fairfax, Calif.