I managed a fruit and vegetable shop for two years, I still don't particularly like vegetables, so I don't eat them very often.Therefore I eat meat,and I enjoy it and it does have taste, better tahn vegetables which just taste of water, in order to get them to have any taste people tend to smother them with ingredients and flavours , curries and chillies and God knows what goes into some of these vegetarian meals, just to take away the taste of the vegetables. I mean lettuce?????, green crispy or soggy (depending on which one)it tastes of nothing, I personally do not put salt or pepper on my foode and I hate it if I go to someones house for a meal and all you can taste is say curry or chillies, having the coating taken off my tongure is not my idea of fun. If someone came to my house and said they were vegetarian thats what they would get a plate of peas, cabbage , sprouts, green beans etc. let's see how they wouldlike that....It's meat for me, and it's my choice.By the way a plant is a living thing....ask all the tree-huggers in the world.