Herbivore >>> Carnivore !!!

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct

So said some wise-ass American. I had made a decision, which technically speaking was by default the status quo, of not consuming meat.
But my instincts were awoken on a recent trip to that land of beautiful women & cheese & strange accents, France.
A friend of mine was instrumental in pushing me over the edge & though it was only supposed to be a one-time thing, i discovered that i have pretty strong instincts !!!

Now the basic premise on which i had based my decision not to eat meat ( rhymes well doesn't it ??!!) was that it was like eating a corpse. Now if you think of it from that point of view, it certainly seems a bit inhumane..to me at least. I mean, come on, eating a corpse !!! (a v.tasty corpse i must admit )
But then, on one balmy midnight in Dubai, a voracious meat-eater friend of mine & i got into THE debate, one about the moral aspect of eating meat & i suddenly realized the glaring holes in my argument.
Eating "plants" is considered to be morally correct, but they are living creatures to right? Photosyenthesis & other -thesises i might not be aware of are breathing mechanisms of these living beings & they might not be able to struggle when being uprooted from the ground & hacked from the branches, but they are living & breathing beings. No less than the deep fried chicken they serve at KFC & which i used to (not any more !!! Yaaay !!) avoid.
And all this coming from me seems daft considering i had eaten eggs (& tons of them...1 of the reason i myself weighed about a ton). Now eating an egg is virtuous, but eating meat ??? Oh absolutely wrong. Well if you can eat an unborn creature mate, you might as well let them live a while & then eat them. That does actually seem better !!!