[Tom]

Originally Posted by MrGaryy

I never said you need meat, but most people have been brought up on a meat diet, unless you felt strongly about animal cruelty it would be mighty inconvenient to just cut it out completely. Battery farming is obviously a problem and does occur but there are also loads of farms where animals are treated well and slaughtered in a humane way.

Theres no such thing as being slaughtered in a humane way and they aren't treated that well even in the best of places. And whether or not people are brought up on a meat diet is irrelevant. We don't need meat. We just eat it because thats what we're used to.