Cricket, to me you sound like a person who is very conflicted about your choice to eat meat. You vehemently try and try to defend your choice and get very upset when someone questions your morality...I don't agree with the very rude tactics of Sean because that seriously doesn't get anyone anywhere, but you sound like someone who wants to be very open to veganism and yet does not want to think everything you have done and thought up to that point could have possibly been wrong. Do you go to restaurants? Do you order meat at restaurants? Do you know where they get their meat? Do you ALWAYS know where your meat comes from? Do you slit the throats of the cows and chickens and pigs yourself? Do you gut them? How does that feel? If factory farms disappeared and all meat was raised "humanely" and sustainably, how much would your meat cost? I think the world might become veggie more quickly if a chicken breast cost $50 a pound and took into account the ACTUAL cost to the environment, etc.