Originally posted by andymike
I do not mind people eating meat arround me. Hell, I'll even cook it for them. I just don't eat it myself. I grew up on a farm and those little guys where my pets.

I used to feed them by hand, sit with them when they where sick, ect. To me it's like eating my pet dog. I couldn't do that either. I used to eat meat, until I came to dinner one night, and asked my mom where betty was. She laughed and said your eating her. Betty was my baby, I helped (well watched) her be born, and she was my pet. I got so sick and upset until I can't do it anymore. I ate chicken and fish for a while after that, but I don't eat that now anymore either.
Awww see, when I hear that I do understand.

You sound like the "Pet Psychic". Ever see her show?
She can hear animals...could since she was a kid...But, while she was a kid, she had pretty much the same thing happen to her. When she found out she ate one of her friends, she no longer could hear the animals. It took her years and years to be able to hear them again.
I love that woman! And, yeah even though I do eat meat, I can see where someone might be able to talk to or hear all animals...

Having said that though, I just feel that since most animals also eat other animals, there is a natural coarse to things/life.

We're (humans) not greater, superior, at the top, better than other animals...just living beings, like all other living beings.
Each one as important as the other (some just taste better……j/k)