Morals I guess.
It's consistency. I wouldn't kill it to eat it (except in dire necessity) so I won't eat it. There are other reasons, but that's the centre of it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 11 Oct 2011, 20:27, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I have no problem with eating meat, moreso the animal husbandry before death.
But it's too late for me to go back to red meat and I don't miss it.
( girlinthehole, Tue 11 Oct 2011, 20:32, Reply)

this is one of the afore mentioned other reasons.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 11 Oct 2011, 20:40, Reply)

veggies are living organisms

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 11 Oct 2011, 20:32, Reply)

Everything is alive but not everything has a nervous system.

( girlinthehole, Tue 11 Oct 2011, 20:35, Reply)

would it be more humane to murder a cow by truck or by gun?

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 11 Oct 2011, 20:38, Reply)

Gun.
And more cost effective.
( girlinthehole, Tue 11 Oct 2011, 20:43, Reply)