The redneck strike again.

[bennyboy]

Try again. In the meantime, let me take a crack at it-

You don't eat meat because it feels icky. You've rationalized this ickly feeling post hoc, but the rationalization was not as important as the icky feeling - so you didn't take the time to research the issue in order to form a thorough understanding of it. Instead, you looked for snips of text and argument that would appear to support the initial icky feeling regardless the veracity of the snips and arguments -intentionally manufacturing validation for a deeply personal experience. You further vested this icky feeling with spiritual heft and weight, and as such it has become an item of sacred importance to you. This capped it, and made it "true forever, all over the cosmos" as any spiritual thing is experienced to be.

How did I do? There's nothing wrong with being a vegetarian just because eating meat makes you uncomfortable. That's a valid reason. There -is- something wrong with offering shitty arguments that 5 minutes worth of google could have dispelled for you before you ever had the displeasure of talking to me.

Your misquoting of me as the source of those arguments, and your delusions of grandeur (in thinking that your arguments are unique or coherent enough to make me feel any discomfort) notwithstanding, you haven't done very well.

My main reason for not eating meat is a moral one, stemming from two primary points. 1) There's nothing magi-special about human beings that makes their suffering or death worthy of moral consideration while that of other animals is not-- UNLESS you believe in the soul. 2) Much of the meat production and consumption is unnecessary, and given global environment issues, this excess represents a moral failure. In the USA, for example, you have a nation consisting almost entirely of morbidly overweight people, claiming that eating meat is a "necessity." This overconsumption is insulting both to the animals and to nature in general, as well as to the many families starving around the world. It is this disgusting state of waste that makes me feel "icky." Show me a population which eats for nutrition, rather than for gastronomic masturbation, and show me cattle which are exclusively grazed on natural terrain, and my opinions might change.