I have one more thing to say..and its been bothering me for a while now.

Its been almost a month now since I have eaten any meat, and constantly people are asking me about it and critisizing me for the decision.

Typical question:
"let me just ask you this, what do you think you are accomplishing by not eating meat?"

Typicail Answer:
"Im not supporting the meat producing industry by buying their products"

It goes WAY beyond that, but the main point here is, whats it to you the reasoning I have, and other vegetarians have for not eating meat? Just because its not the norm, or because you dont beleive in it doesnt make it wrong.
I dont eat meat because it makes me sad to think about how the poor animals were taught before they were turned into somebodys dinner.
I dont eat meat because I dont think it tastes good.
I dont eat meat because I dont beleive humans should take advantage of our strength over other species and murder them the way we do.
I dont eat meat because I have extreme compassion for other living things.
I dont eat meat because I CHOOSE NOT TO.
Thats all you should need me to tell you, I dont deserve to be debreifed or, furthermore, interrogated about it.
This just reminds me of how narrow minded people can be in other aspects of life, such as religion and sexuality. I think these three aspects of life mold the general personality of America, and we judge eachother so mercilessly in each category:

"Fat people are just disgusting, "
"anorexic people need to eat a hamburger, "
"vegetarians think they are making more of a difference than they really are.."

"gay people should die, "
"lesbians are OK but two guys is GROSS, "
"homosexuals have high pitched voices and paint their nails..."

"you are going to hell if you arent MY religion, "
"god is going to punish you for masterbation, "
"god forgives everybody except the people he doesnt forgive and they go to hell, "
"mormans are sexist horny bastards..."

Can people just try to be a little more accepting of one another? Thats what diversity is all about..I know Im not perfect but I think it would do the world a lot of good if everybody stopped to think about the hurt & pain they were causing the next person before they spoke an insult or degradation upon them.

Hillary...ranting