Mac & Cheese

[Whispers]

Eh, I don't believe in a creator deity.??Therefore, I don't believe we were "built" for anything.

Certainly feasting on bone marrow and - once we developed the knowledge to form tools and weapons - the flesh of beasts has evolved our bodies to make do with the intake of meat.??I, however, don't feel that this confines us to eating meat whether we want to or not.??

I, personally, don't feel that something else should have to die in order to keep me alive.??I feel this is simply selfish.??I am not a selfish person - especially not to the extent to let something die for me.??

Secondly, abstaining from meat - whether permanently or periodically - has been proven to be very healthy for you.??The only thing meat has that others don't are a few vitamins and minerals like B12.??B12 is evident in plant sources, but only scarcely.??Being an ovolactarian (a vegetarian who partakes in eggs [ovo] and dairy [lact] products), myself, I am not at all worried about this, though.??

Being a vegetarian also doesn't diminish protein, iron or the levels of any other necessity that people generally associate with vegetarianism.??You can be a perfectly fine athlete without eating meat or even drinking protein shakes. Another added benefit is we don't have to worry about those crazy diseases that plague the media like hoof-and-mouth nor do we support McDonald's.??xD

We're also not crazy, tree-hugging, pot-smoking hippies.