I'm not a vegetarian. But I do try to limit my meat intake and also purchase non-factory farmed meat. The only beef that I personally buy is free range, grass fed, local beef. Raising cows on grain is not their natural diet, cows are designed to eat grass. The grain is for making them grow faster and fatter, it gives the meat extra fat or marbeling which is desired by many consumers.

Animals die everyday because of accidents, not limitted to food production. But I have to say that I think for a lot of vegetarians the issue is not necessarily about one animals death, but the treatment of the collective groups of factory farmed animals. Also there is a significant amount of environmental damage done by factory farming of animals, which many vegetarians consider too when choosing not to eat meat.

Anyway those are my basic thoughts on the meat or no meat issue. I hope I didn't upset anyone. Someday I will probably switch to a vegetarian but not vegan diet. It's your personal choice what you choose to eat but I personally believe that your personal choices do have an impact on the situation.