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The problem with North American diets isn't meat, but how much meat and how it's prepared. We eat way too much meat around here. I bet most people will have a 1/3 of every dish they eat during the day consist of some sort of meat product. The human body simply doesn't need that much proteen and meat is very easy to "extend" by using other food that soaks up the flavour. Then there is the issue of how we preapare it, making our dishes terribly unhealthy. Vegetarian dishes are generally more healthy not because they comprise of vegitables but because more though has been put into their preperation.
From a moral perspective I have no issue with killing animals to eat them. Animals die all the time to get eaten. People who compare animals to humans are backing up the wrong tree. There is no natural law which says killing is wrong. There is an agreed upon social contract which says killing humans is wrong. Such an agreement is pretty damn beneficial to our society don't you think? When it comes to animals such as cats and dogs, which we take on as pets and thus grow emotionaly attached too; we have yet another social agreement. We accept these animals into our homes, as part of our lives and obviously that requires emotional attachment thus making it traumatic if we killed them and ate them. Sure you can take in a goat or a cow as a pet, and yes I bet you would grow attached enough to them or even their whole species to not be able to eat them, it's part of our emotional bond after all. I have no issue with people not eating meat though, if it floats your boat, take the ride.
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