I'm not a vegetarian and I doubt I ever will be. To be frank, I hate vegetables, they are yucky and I never eat any. I wouldn't be able to live as an vegetarian. Besides that, I also have some severe health problems and I need to eat a varied diet that includes meat.

But yes, there is many instances where I feel awful for eating an animal. I guess I'm totally split on this issue.

A quote that I find quite meaningful though (and which is about this subject):

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger after sweet and gentle creatures who harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service - John Jacques Rousseau