anyone who eats meat should at 1 time in there life have to look the animal in the eye kill the animal gut and prepare it so they are aware of what goes on and more appreciative of the animal that has been killed and used. i have done this for this reason. i personally see this as the proper circle of life all of us will be eaten at some point mostly by bacteria and insects or eventually taken up as fertilizer by plants. i do however try to buy organically raised meats for health and animal life quality. i know what goes on at the mass production factories and it is not a good thing but as an athlete i will not sacrifice my health or quality of life because something has to die. but like i said i do try to avoid the garbage meat its not what it once was. i personally feel that killing is killing. when i cull a male plant i feel no different than killing a mammal for food. because people asociate themselves with things with eyes they assume lower life forms dont count. by this standard vegans could eat insects and oceanic invertebrates such as mussels/snails/corrals/clams and many more. they are no more aware of things than plants and do not have a true brain only ganglia a series of responsive nerve endings. anyways just wondering why some of these are excluded from vegan diets as eating them would be similar to eating plants as far as conciousness is concerned. just thinking outload