<--- is a vegetarian because I'd never be able to perform the act of killing an animal, skinning it, and gutting it. Since I wouldn't do that it hardly seems ok to eat it. I also have HUGE problems with the ways animals used for food are treated/raised.
One fact about human ominvorious diet is the way we digest food. Meat takes a long time to digest in the body (compared to other animals who require more meat like cats), the thought is that meat is intended to be a suppliment to a mostly plant diet. The exact opposite has become true in the west where vegitables are the suppliment to huge portions of meat.
I don't insist on others being vegetarian. It's my own personal decision and one based on my own ethics. That said, I feel no compulsion to cook it for someone else in my home. In turn, I wouldn't give someone grief for eating a steak in front of me (veil I'd have to really try not to say something though).
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