ok, if we all lived in the woods, we would eat just about evrything. humans are omnivors. yes you could choose to not eat meat, the protein found in meat of any kind helps the body make all kinds of usefull stuff. unfortunatly unless you don't mind killing and gutting your own dinner this is the most cost efective way to get the beef from the animal to your plate. also in this corprate controlled world the cows are just a number, like us.