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No, it's not absolutely necessary to eat meat, but are you really going to argue that not eating meat is healthier? Cows as a species would probably not even exist if they weren't useful; we would have forced their nondomesticated ancestors into extinction long ago. How did these animals get domesticated in the first place? It wasn't because humans wanted them as pets. From the very beginning we've been killing and eating them. They became domesticated because it was BETTER for them to be cared for by humans for some number of years, bred, and killed instead of fending for themselves in the wild and then dying anyway in less time because they starved or got eaten by a wolf or something. It's a mutually beneficial relationship. Animals do not value living a long and full life like humans do. They simply want to eat and reproduce as much as possible before dying (which is also a goal of humans of course). There are a hell of a lot more cows and chickens on the planet than there would be without us and they probably live longer than they would wild. From nature's point of view, that is success.
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
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