I'd like to add that I don't mind animals being killed for food at all, humans are omnivores and the ones that are being unusual are vegetarians, but really, some places are just excessively cruel. If that were my prime reason for wanting to be a vegetarian, I'd only eat meat from places where I know that the animals aren't fattening to the point where their legs break, or fried alive, or had their beaks snapped off, etc. I'm not into PETA practices (it'll be a million years until you find me living in a tree or going to TGIF in a cow suit), but their KFC video made me sob, it was so horrifying. So yeah. I'm not a very hardcore vegetarian, my reasons are more personal, I still crave meat at times, and I couldn't care less if people eat meat because like I said, humans ARE omnivores and that's just natural, but I still think that excessive cruelty needs to be cut down.

Just look at it like this: how much does the flavor of the meat change if the animal is just killed quickly and as painlessly as possible as opposed to if the animal is tortured and killed slowly and painfully? I'd warrant on not very much if at all.