Certain types of meat are almost essential to human health. That's how we evolved.

my argument is that due to recent farming methods, the meat we eat is getting more and more unhealthy. It might have helped us evolve, but take, for example, a pig. Before the domestication of animals, a pig was ~3% fat, 97% "good stuff". By now, the fat content is over 30%, and I don't want to know what's in the rest.

EDIT: back then, fat was "good stuff", so 100% good stuff. Now probably <30%

I actually have gone semi-vegetarian just because of current farming processes. I just meant to say that protection of sentient life isn't a solid reason to not eat meat, because food chain.

I disagree that sentience is an invalid reason. I wouldn't eat something like, say, a dolphin, as it does in fact have a fairly high degree of intelligence. However, that's more based on my own personal idea of what is okay and what isn't okay to eat. As far as your "food chain" argument goes, I think that morally speaking, "it's natural" isn't an excuse at all. It's "natural" for people to go to war with each other or punch each other in the face, yet it's something that's generally agreed to be bad. Just because we can do something and our instincts tell us to do something does not make it good.

I've considered vegetarianism. But not because I love animals. Because I hate plants.

why would you hate a distant relative?
What did plants do to you?

If you bring them inside you, they can attack easier.

So that's where food allergies come from....

Anything else wouldn't make any sense. ;)

I am a non-vegetarian and I must say every non-veg dish is far tastier then vegetarian dishes,I take non-Vegetarian dishes because of taste only.

Not all vegetarian foods are bad.

Agreed. But I find a lot of them just don't taste like food to me.

*shrugs*

I've been a vegetarian for a couple of years now and I still don't know the ins and outs of it. Still never had "good" tofu. Not even sure if "good" tofu exists. I eat numerous amounts of almonds and the like (I standardly try to avoid saying that I eat a lot of nuts). That seems to work for me. But so far most of my "vegetarian" food is just regular food without meat in it. Do you guys have any good non-meaty recipes? Aside from Peanut Butter and Jelly?

Veggie burgers are nowhere near as good as "regular" burgers, assuming both are homemade. Great, now I'm drooling...