I know where you're coming from, Flatcoatluver. I would never be able to kill anything that I raised, I would definetly become attatched.

I am a vegetarian too. If I ever went back to eating meat (which I doubt I will, I am so much healthier and feel 100% better as a veggie) it would have to be meat that I know the source of. It'd have to have been raised well or have been wild and also be killed fast with the least amount of pain. That was the reason I went vegetarian, because the animals from factories suffer while alive and suffer while dying.

I think people like Alletco who want to know the source of their meat and/or raise it are awesome. It's so frustrating when I talk to people at work about meat (they always bring up the fact that I'm a vegetarian and that they CAN'T live without meat). They won't listen to me when I say that I am only a vegetarian because I can't support cruelty to animals. Dr. D is the only one that raises cattle for meat, but she will also eat meat at restaraunts and such. You'd think people from a vet would at least try to understand you're point of view. They don't look down on me, and when we go out or order food they try to think about a place where I could eat, but gaah it's still frustrating ... especially since they're the ones that bring it up!