"she said that it doesnt matter if i turn vegetarian becuase its not like theyll stop killing the farm animals. they will still kill them no matter what i do."

I've had that line used on me so many times. I think even the people who use it know that it's completely illogical, but so are most of their arguments...

The fact of the matter is that the more people that buy meat the more meat will be killed. If one person stops eating meat then maybe they won't kill any less animals, but for every one person thinking about giving up meat i'm sure there are thousands of people in the same situation. If you all stopped eating meat at the same time then yes, it wpould make a huge difference. Think about it; most vegetarians have been in your situation at some point... and we all made the step and gave it up. With so many vegetarians not eating meat it's a fact that the meat industry isn't killing as much meat as it would be if EVERYONE ate meat.