[Zeke]

Yes, I'm a vegetarian since 1985. Before that I could walk into a steak house and eat 2 prime rib dinners back to back. But I started wondering about things like hot dogs ans sausage years before that. I gave up bacon in the 70's. Same with anything called "lunch meat." It sort of evolved until one day in '85 I was eating a a Mexican food chain here in CA called El Torito. I knew somehow that the siht I was stuffing in my pie hole was not fit for eating. I pushed the plate forward and quit.

So, you ask, what about chicken and fish? Well, see the story about my friend at the chicken farm conglomerate. That took care of that and besides, the chicken today in the market is nothing like the chicken my mother bought. That leaves fish. I could and should eat a little fish but my wife never cared for fish so it's off the menu at home. AFA ordering fish at a nice fish place, IDK, just never got back into any flesh. Don't miss it at all — ever. Not even at one week or one year.

Just done with it.

AFA cantdrv55's comment about not eating what he killed, it seems to me that's indicative of the reason farmers don't name slaughter animals. Or that's what I hear.

BTW, I'm not a card carrying member of PETA and their demagoguery. I go out and enjoy dinner with meat eaters any time I get the chance. We veggies are a minority in the room and smart ones know that.