"They are perfectly happy up to the day they are slaughtered." Yes, I'd imagine getting slaughtered would bring an end to happiness very quickly. For health reasons, though, all of the points are 100% correct. Not only the benefits like reduced risk of heart attack and food poisoning, but the science and nature proves that we are best suited for herbivorous diets. Really, there's no need to raise and slaughter other living beings. It's actually better to go without that.

Meat is actually important to our diet. If you don't eat meat, you have to try and replace it by things I consider a lot less yummy. Sure, eating too much meat can increase the risk of heart attack and all, but it's like that with everything... too much is never okay.

So true. My MIL is a farmer. I hate the people who are all gung-ho that all meat is horribly treated until its ruthlessly slaughtered. I've watched a cow of hers killed (did NOT stick around for the butchering) and it was over very quick.

I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or trolling, 236. Plants don't feel pain; they don't have nerves, they don't have a nervous system, and they especially don't have a brain to process the signals transmitted by the nerves. Animals do feel pain, however, and there are rather cruel slaughtering procedures to produce the meat we eat. That being said, I'm not a vegetarian. Please, learn some basic anatomy before you post.