Fine, you want logic, here you go: humans are omnivorous by our very nature, and have been so since the dawn of our species. The problem that I have with the veg-heads is that they fail to realize that people have been eating meat for 100,000 years, and there has no (zilch, zero, zip) upsetting of the planet's equilibrium. Has there been a paradigm shift? Of course, but nature is perfectly in balance and will continue to be so long after out species is dead and gone. You see, I find the arrogance of the earth-first people quite disturbing -- why do we think that anything we do can affect this planet? The Earth has been through a lot worse than us and has come out just fine. As for the animals, let's face it, the only reason people such as yourself argue against eating meat is because it's trendy. It's the white, elitist culture which breeds such idiocy as "we need to protect animals because eating them leads to the killing of more plant life. So we should eat only plants." What sort of stupidity is this? Do you know where there aren't any vegetarians? Poor countries. (I'm obviously excluding India, as certain religions precludes them from eating meat). But take a trip down to sub-saharan Africa and ask them if animals should be protected and instead people should subsist solely on salad. I think after laughing at you for the better part of an hour, the Africans might try to toss you in a pot and boil you up. No one except spoiled, middle class psuedo-intellectuals bother with this nonsense, because hard working, rational people know that at the end of the day, there's nothing like relaxing with a bottle of cold frosty suds, a nice juicy steak and a Cuban cigar. Did a cow have to die so that a human could eat? Yeah, but you know what, it's a cow, and cows are basically food and clothing neatly packaged in one animal. Same goes for pigs and chickens (sans the clothing) and fish and anything else that didn't evolve into Primates. Food animals have no other purpose on this planet except to be food; this is the reason, by the way, that we don't eat dogs and horses - they are work animals and can do more than grill up real well. I'm getting sort of tired of posting responses to the anti-meat crowd; I must have posted at least a dozen times in the past, and already effectively made my point. Bottom line is, if you don't like meat because you don't like the taste, then fine, eat your sprouts and smile. If you are a veg-head because Sting or some other celebrity-trendsetter told you to put away your slim-jims, then you are a moron and are not worth talking to. However, if you have given up hamburgers because you think that animals (read:food) have rights and that eating them will through the earth's equilibrium out of balance, then you are not only ignorant, but dangerous and the government needs to step in and make sure you don't breed.