Your pet and a farm animal have a lot it common: If you recognize a bond between you and your pet then please give up eating industrially farmed animals. Animals are very poorly treated in these factory farms. Try other more ecologically sound, less cruel forms of protein like tofu, tvp (texturized vegtable protein), beans, setan, tempeh ...even seafood (it's hard to torture a shrimp!) I don't think that it is immoral to eat meat, but it is immoral to raise animals on industrialized factory farms where they are treated with no mercy. It's important that people who recognize the spark of life and love in their pet have the chance to know it exists in all of God's creatures including pigs chickens and cows. I don't mean to be an overbearing whiner, but I believe it's important for every person that enjoys the company of an animal to give up meat once in a while to acknowlege the suffering that goes on in our "farms" today. Thanks, Clover