Posts like this turned me in an almost-vegetarian. I was raised eating meat every day, and I'm not happy about it today. But people only get brains when they're like 20 and out of the house, right.

I increasingly got a dislike in eating the dead bodies of animals, even though I still love the taste of meat. The more I read about the anguish animals go through before they are killed - read: murdered by cannibals - the more my conscience started bothering me.

Over the years I gained weight, till I was officially obese according to the BMI scale.

In May this year a doctor told me I'm on the fast track to a heart attack, just like my dad. That kind of shook me.

I dropped meat almost entirely, all processed foods, and started walking once or twice a week. Well, three months later without really big effort I weigh what the BMI says a normal healthy person should weigh, and my health is dramatically better. Quitting meat 99% contributed to a large degree to that.

And what motivated me? Posts like this one. How can one raise an animal, just to have it killed a year or six later? It's beyond immoral, if we want to be brutally honest with ourselves.

The human body does not need meat, we can take a single vitamin pill once a week. Plus, studies show that vegetarians live significantly longer, like 20 years, than meat eaters.

Yes, I want a farm, and I want cattle. I'll probably steal some of their milk, because cow juice is delicious. But never will an animal be killed on my farm.