The big deal is that, plain and simply when you eat an animal, you are eating the flesh of a once living, breathing, beautiful creature that was murdered for your benefit. I, for one, cannot stand the thought of something being caused pain or suffering for my pleasure. It's utterly DISGUSTING what slaughters do to these animals! In the coming days I'll be displaying links and articles to places you can go to read accounts of these malicious acts. I'm sooo sick of hearing people say "why do you care so much? It's not like it's causing you pain, besides the animal doesn't feel anything." My reply? Doesn't feel anything? Yeah right, how about I butcher you and then you can tell me you didn't feel a thing. Another "winning" statement: "They ate meat in the bible, Jesus ate meat." Well, first off, I'm not sure I believe in Jesus (for the record, I do believe in God, just not necessarily the God the religions believe in) and hello...that was 2,000 years ago! They really didn't have a choice, they did what they had to. Why should we eat like they did 2,000 years ago, we don't live like that anymore. One last statement: "Oh great, are you going to be an animal rights activist and blow up buildings and kill people for eating meat?" My reply: I already AM and animal rights activist and member of PETA and that crap about all veg's blowing up building and hating meat-eaters, is just that: CRAP. I DO NOT hate meat eaters! Most of my best friends and friends eat meat, but I do think, however, they are wrong.