Everything is perception. Everything is an illusion. You are simply in continuous dreams. Every time you die you simply wake to a new life as a new person. Have fun as you know it, cause when you die none of it will truly matter. In the end we all die in out own shit. Therefore I eat tasty food vegetarian or not. 

"@DevWil:  
I had a really long page stretching post to refute all the points you made, but then I had a better idea.
 
I am going to explain to you the state society is in and why the ethics of animal rights simply isn't a factor anymore.
 
Man is at an interesting cross road now because, when taken to the extreme, most animals are pretty much just left overs from the evolutionary war. We won the game, and in a century or perhaps even just a few decades the need for both plants and animals will be absolute nil. Wildlife should still be preserved of course, though it would really be only to the benefit of scholars.
 
Look, I know it's kind of hard to see the point I'm driving at because quite frankly I'm not even sure what I'm talking about now. There have been a shit load of scientific breakthroughs recently regarding synthetic tissue as of late and what the future holds is both very exciting and very unknown.
 
Let me phrase it in the form of a hypothetical.
 
Mankind is sitting at a decision and has two options and no way out. To continue the advancement of the human race, all wildlife outside of perserved specimens must be destroyed. No species will become extincted, and every animal is kept within a state of the art storage facility which simulates it's natural environment and populations of each species are regulated and monitored. Each little pocket of life is kept within a perfectly secure building accessible for both scholarly work and is open to the general public. A majority of Earth's animals though.
 
So what would you chose? The stagnation of human civilization, or the lives of trillions of animals.
 
That may seem like a radical concept to you, but is it really? Many animals are basically commodities at this point. They aren't much good for anything other than eating. These domesticated weaklings can no longer survive on their own, they are already extinct. Chickens, cows, pigs,  and all the other animals we have kept for companionship or food. They are no longer animals, they are goods. As much as most people hate to admit it, those animals are as good as dead.
 
What do you think would happen to domesticated animals if we decided to stop eating meat? Do you expect us to spend billions of dollars to keep the vast populations of these creatures alive? Are we supposed to just release them back into the wild? Do you expect most, if any, of these creatures to survive in our urbanized world, let alone the wild? What is the better option? Would you like them to all go at once or should we continue actually using them?
 
Vegatarians like to act like not eating animals is ethically correct, like it is morally right; but do you ever stop to consider the long term implications of your lifestyle? 
 
By being a Vegetarian you seek to ultimately destroy the very animal life you claim you wish to save.  It's too late to turn back the clock, the world is what it is and the lives of the animals you want to save were lost a long long time ago. I want to see your perfect world. I want to see the thousands of miles of land covered in the corpses of animals that have died from starvation or been killed by predators. I want to see a world in which the cow doesn't go "moo" because the cow is fucking dead.  Oh sure, some of them could be saved in facilities like Zoos, but how is that any better? That's just leading back to my hypothetical question, in fact it is the same exact choice.  Choose. The lives of billions animals, or a world of Vegetarians.  Go.  What needs to be changed is how we treat animals, not how we use them. That is what it comes down to. "

sadly the fact of the matter is that human biology is specifically designed to consume meat AND potatoes.

" @DevWil: 
 What vegetarianism is asking for is the complete genocide of millions of animals. "  

I must say that after reading your response, you showed enough intelligence regarding the debate to make me think this is not a troublesome thread; at first, I thought you may have been a vegetarian based off the title (sorry, didn't read beginning), but now I see that you are, in fact, trying to gain ground with the ones I thought you may have been working against. I would say that your argument is perfect, but the convoluted structures of some of your sentences weakens the point. Good job on a decent argument, though.

woooooah text overload

I support the slaughtering of cows by barely paid workers to fill my tummy.
 
I don't remember anyone saying that eating meat is superior, if anything vegetarians/vegans are the worst because they think that just because they kill things that are green (and occasionally other colors) instead of pumping blood they're superior. 
 
If I were you I wouldn't try preaching to anyone, it's a sure way to get yourself told off big time. The hell should anyone care about the cows or whatnot that were born and raised for the sole purpose of being knocked out, strung upside down and then having their throats cut? Actually I'm going to be studying to be a butcher soon and the teacher told me I could probably breeze through the class, so if anything I'll be making profit by turning gigantic carcasses into not quite bit-sized pieces. It's actually pretty fun too, especially when you start up the dreaded table saw and cut through 10 ribs, almost loosing your fingers can be such a thrill.

However, we're still animals. 

" @DevWil:  This shit is happening now. We've made extraordinary leaps in Biology very recently, and the medical benefits of such research is too great to be ignored. Synthetic meat is a reality at this point, because when synthetic organs are completed all the necessary work to create synthetic, edible tissue would already have been done. Arthur C. Clarke was a very intelligent man, though ultimately an idealist. The first synthetic cell has been created, and the time is now.  What I'm really struggling to understand is how can say your choice to be a Vegetarian is saving anything. By your definition, the only way you could actually live by your beliefs and not be a complete hypocrite would be to eat food grown on small local farms. Now, maybe you do do that but, I'm going to go with the safe bet and assume you don't. By eating any processed food you are actively funding the companies that  destroy enormous amounts of land each year, subsequently destroying the habitats of thousands of animals.  You aren't killing an animal with your bare hands when you eat meat from the slaughter house, so you and me are on the exact same level when it comes to harming wild life. "

" @DevWil:  
@Virago:   The world needs more vegetarians like Virago and less like the OP. Thanks for NOT being a total douche, Virago. "

@DevWill: I was saying that after reading your response to me,I changed my mind; this should not be locked and it's not offensive.