The truth about the cattle industry and the practice of raising animals for food is that they are driving climate change and the destruction of the planet.  

These heavily subsidized industries are not only top polluters of water, ground, and air,...they also contribute more green-house gases than the entire transportation industry.  

There should be nobody "applauding" these people, but instead we should be doing everything we can to shut down these unsustainable, resource intensive, climate-change causing, environmentally destructive industries.  And in most cases 

Not to mention the devastating effect meat and dairy consumption have had on human health.  We can give plenty of credit to the cattle industry and their customers for the very high healthcare costs we all incur.

We will do ourselves a lot of good if we begin to view the rest of life on Earth as subjects to be communed with instead of objects to be exploited.