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meat is food people need food to survive. people need certian ammounts of food and nuetrients to survive or we get sick
while most people think that eating meat makes you fat thats not totaly true anything can make you fat or unhealthy you just have to keep everything in moderation

yes... you can survive without meat. Is it the healthiest option? No. But we humans, being omnivorous, are amazingly capable to adapt. If our bodies aren't given meat... it'll work with what you give it. You're still very likely to be deficient in something though. Typically Iron or Protein. Excluding any entire food group from your diet causes complications without supplimenting the provided nutritional aspects.

Essentially, rather, nearly exactly what I would have said, namely the bold. And as sad as it is, even if magically we weren't dependent on the meat industry, you could say goodbye to Bessie, Clara-Cluck and Porky. Besides for the very short continuation of those farms that would want to keep them as pets, without the meat industry, these animals would not have commercial purpose to raise. Sadly, we are a commercial world. Thus, without us consuming them, they would disappear.

While it is unbearably hypocritical of me to say, with the consumption of meat; out of sight, out of mind. I do feel for the animals that are treated in such an inhumane manner, but I don't see it as a reason to stop the consumption of meat, especially since vegetarianism would not stop the problem! If I DID stop eating meat, it's essentially a cop-out that I could use to make myself feel better about the issue; that I'm not fueling the soulless 'meat machine'. I do NOT think vegetarians are cop-out [ers?] by any means, not at all, please don't get offended, I have good friends that are vegetarian and vegan. But, in my own mentality, that's what it would do to address the actual issue of animal cruelty.

In short:
Does being veggie solve animal cruelty, blackvoice? Hell naw.
Are humans going to do what they're going to do, blackvoice? Mmm--uhmmm.
Are humans destructive beings, more in favor of progress over care, blackvoice? Hell yeaaahhhh.

I looked at the website and the organisation looks like it is similar to SAFE (Saving animals from explotation) a New Zealand organisation who I have worked for in the past.

I am not a vegetarian, but I will not eat any meat that comes from pork.

The reason for this is that in New Zealand meat all the meat we eat is locally produced. Most of the country's land is used for agricultural purposes and agriculture is our main export.
All the cows and sheep in New Zealand are kept in excellant conditions. Because of our mild climate they are kept grazing all year round, and I myself have seen the care that farmers have for their stock.

Unfortuantly I can not say the same for our pig farms. In fact they are kept in appalling conditions, where they can not move, and start developing unusual behaviour.

For this reason I only eat beef and lamb.

It's not a question of health (although that's certainly one side of the argument) but about the humanity of how we treat our food.

Just because something tastes good shouldn't give you the right to get at it no matter what, for a variety of reasons. If you tasted a dish and only later found out that it was (for the sake of this example) a dead baby, would you feel the same way about it?

On a different note:

A more environmentally-centered reason for veganism/vegetarianism/meat reduction.

On the contrary, we humans do not eat all animals, and most animals that eat other animals are not eaten by people. Also, to say that they were put on the planet to be eaten by us or others means that animals couldn't have existed before people did. I hope you can rephrase your argument.

Also, putting economic pressure on meat production seems to be a fine way to reduce inhumane treatment of animals, please explain how you think otherwise. I'm not sure what you mean by slowing down the process or making our economy "rise," so if you could please explain that also I would appreciate it.

People *should* give up their cars for more environmentally friendly transportation, but that's a different topic. In this case, it's more about a variety of reasons for giving up meat, including but not limited to:

-A healthier lifestyle
-More humane treatment of animals
-Environmental health

Whereas the arguments against giving up meat seem to be (as far as I've seen in this thread):

-Liking the taste for meat
-Natural diet