I was raised in the heavily veggie influenced 'seventh-day adventist' christian church as a child.

Most of their religious beliefs are insane and won't be passed on to my children (someday). However, I am very grateful for being exposed to their wonderful dietary practices and meat substitute products. Many of which the SDA's are responsible for developing.

There's absolutely no excuse for eating meat anymore. Especially when so many products exist now that are nearly identical in taste, texture...etc. Eating meat is wasteful financially and hurts our economy, it's bad for the environment, your health and creates a lot of other unnecessary problems.

People everywhere will eventually realize this. It's only a matter of time.

If you're seriously considering going off meat for good I suggest you pick up this book by Pamela Rice titled 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian