This is such crap.

How can anybody have the nerve to compare genocide to eating a steak?

None of these enviro-nuts criticizes predatory animals for their behavior. Of course not. They're animals, with no free will and nothing that we can call actual and full consciousness. But if we can't criticize animals for making ethical decisions, why criticize men for eating them?

Animals aren't moral actors and never will be. Why is it wrong to kill them? Plants are living, but it's alright to eat them because they also aren't moral actors. Sure, animals are closer to us than plants are, but that's why it's alright to eat a cow and not a chimp, for instance.

By the way, there's this line in the article about "modern societies justifying the abuse and slaughter of animals." Are you kidding me? Sorry, I think we've been enjoying steaks since before the 18th century.