...animals are more important to the planet than we are.

After a few of years of furious debate, I ran out of arguments and finally became a vegetarian a couple of weeks ago.

I have spent the best part of nearly 2 years arguing with myself about this. It went from arguing the reasons to go vegetarian to arguing the reasons to remain a carnivore. Eventually I was at the point where the only remaining reason was my love of the taste of meat, and that was the big one, why ditch something that you love? It needs a good reason.
From being oblivious to the World around me, I have grown to love nature with a passion, partly due to running and photography and partly due to the badger cull and much down to Malachi. I do believe that animals are more important to the planet than we are. We destroy whereas they live. Our lives are complicated by the need to own and dominate based on wealth and power whereas their need to dominate is based on natural selection, strength and the ability to father strong young. Despite our best efforts to demean animals as being greatly inferior, dolphins use more of their brains than we do and animals play, have fun and love, maybe in different ways to us, but what is the difference? I see it in our cats, they instinctively know cat people and they love their people, I can vouch for that at 3am when our kitten needed cuddles and was licking my face and purring,

None of this is the reason that I quit meat, that reason was far simpler: when calves go to the slaughter they are so scared that they try and suckle on the fingers of the slaughter men.

Somethings are there to break a heart, others are there to get a reaction, this was both of those rolled into one for me.