@tineyfaery I have always been a vegetarian for the animal welfare aspect. The health benefit was just that. An added benefit : )
We don’t need to kill animals to survive, or to maintain our own good health.
For most people, they like their traditions, they like the taste of meat, and it’s much easier to simply be an omnivore, than to become vegan or vegetarian.
Most people, at least in the US, will never equate cows and pigs, with dogs and cats, unless it affects them personally, like I do (and probably you do too).
I am here as a sounding board, and a person who feels, and sees, and experiences things differently than most people, but I can’t force anyone to do things differently, or to see things differently, or to experience things differently. I can only explain things from my own point of view.
I think animals deserve to be treated much better than they are, whether they are dogs, or pigs, or lizards, or fish, or spiders. Most people do not see things like that.