I'm eating spaghetti with hamburger meat in it right now, and have been as I've read this entire thread, and I just now realized it, and I promise you it doesn't bother me.

There are about twenty odd head of cattle in the pastures behind my house, and I have no clue where they go when they are sold and really I don't want to know, but it doesn't get in the way of my eating meat.

It seems sorta silly to see so many people going to extremes to classify themselves by such an arbitrary means as what form the energy they put into their bodies takes, but that's just me.

I thought about being vegetarian when I was littler, but I never really managed it. Mostly because I was extremely picky back then, and a good deal of what I would eat was meat.

If cattle are bred to have no instincts any more, it would be sort of cruel to expect them to go back to living like buffalo, ranging wild over the praries. And where would they go? No matter what decisions you make today, the stock of meat living in the farms will have to go somewhere, so instead of bickering, go donate to the Heifer project to give the meat to a country whose people need it. http://www.heifer.org/