In reply to Choss:
> I find it disturbing to call a Living Sentient feeling animal with emotions Like ours a waste Product.
It's only a waste product because we, as the consumer, choose not to use it. As mentioned above, British pink veal would effectively reduce this waste to nothing, and instead produce a relatively healthy (yes, yes, I know, red meat and all that, but in moderation), relatively cheap and high welfare food (granted the high welfare would only be if we only bought high welfare, much like all other meat products really...)
> Alternatively, ditch dairy. Good for cows, good for badgers, and good for your Health.
I disagree with this... Dairy products, in moderation, are not bad for you, in fact with the mix of natural sugars, fats and the fable high calcium levels, they're actually pretty good for you. Good for cows? Increasingly dairy welfare is improving, it has a long way to go, but it is getting better. However, just hypothetically, lets say we all adopted your view and all stopped eating ALL dairy products, totally. How many cows do you think would be culled? Many, I think (if memory serves the national dairy herd is about 1.8 million. There simply would be no need for dairy cows, the meat is not really of high enough quality to be sold as prime cuts, so there'd be a lot of mince and burgers about. Which would generate lots of 'waste'. May i refer you back to your first point!
In general though I think I agree with people above that say that we're all free to eat what we want. It would be nice though if the reasons given are informed, rather than speculative. IMO veggies that say they don;t eat meat because they just don't like the taste/idea of eating meat are the ones that I respect the most.