Vegetarian What Now?

Firstly, I would like to make it clear that I have nothing personal against vegetairians. I mean, the killing of an innocent animal being wrong, or a dislike to the taste and texture of meat. Thats all fine by me.

According to "The One Show" tonight, the average human eats 11,000 animals a year. The number did shock me. Images of Ozzy Osborne wannabes raging through the streets, tearing the heads off of innocent chickens with their teeth and spitting blood and feathers into the air fill my mind.

But is eating so much meat really so bad? For starters, humans have eaten meat for centuries. The multitude of goodness within a carnivorous diet is very apparent. Protiens, fats, iron: yum. So why is eating meat, for some, such a crime?

Cows, Chickens, Sheep and Pigs dont seem to be roaming round wild in an abundance. Infact, if it weren't for the stick breeding of these farmyard animals, they would not even exist. Every 11,000 animals eaten a year, is 11,000 animals that would not have ever lived if it wasnt for meat-eating humans.

More to the point, if eating meat is so very bad, then why does the vegetarian market feel the need to create products that bear such a resemblance to the very thing they despise? Vegetarian bacon, meat free burgers; what is the point to their existance? If you are so very against meat, why would you want your food to look exactly like it?

Me? I think I'll stick to the real bacon sarnies.