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It's not a question of whether or not I like vegetables or not but the fact is that I couldn't be a vegetarian to save my life because I have to eat meat to survive.
I love meat. Meat stuff is pretty much my life. However, the only meat I eat on a regular basis without complaint is beef and lamb. Veal, maybe, since it's a baby cow, but I rarely eat veal so the question of whether or not it's morally correct can't come into play here.
I also love my greens. I can eat my veges without too much of a fuss because somehow, my mum can always make them taste really nice. So that's not a problem there.
But I couldn't live solely on vegetables. I would go mad.

There they are. The vegetarians.

Look at them pass by knowing that they haven't eaten a dead animal today. How thoughtful of those righteous and good-willed vegetarians.

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Gather round, boys and girls. I'm going to tell you why it doesn't matter whether you eat meat or plants and I'm going to tell you why the vegetarian myth of animal rights is completely warped.

The most common vegetarian arguement is that it's good for the animals and we don't have to kill to eat plants. I'm glad to break it to you, plants are alive.

"Oh but plants are just plants. They don't walk around or bark or anything so it's ok for us to kill them."

It's still killing (or murder as some vegetarians describe meat eating). According to you, the level of sentience for animals matters! Sentience is self-awareness or knowledge of existing. Dogs, cats, cows, and other animals are alive and so according to vegetarians should be allowed to go on living.

What about plants?

Do you think that just because a plant can't fight back when you rip it out of the ground that you are superior and thus able to eat it conscience-free? A calf can't fight back when it's put through the slaughter machines so why isn't that ok?

Is it because the calf can scream but a plant can't?

Is it because plants don't bleed?

Is it because you don't have any as pets?

Is it because people don't make coats out of plants?

You might as well let yourself starve to death if you really want to save the environment and give livings things their right to life. Just go on and sacrifice your right to live in the process. You might as well support abortion too just to keep down the number of potential meat eaters.

My oh my, how dare you eat a salad..

I hope you understand that vegetarians are no better than meat eaters. A lot of carnivores (or omnivores like most humans) don't try to get you to eat meat because these people understand the neccessity of eating what they do.

Diet is like religion. It's personal; don't try and force yours on someone else.