I EAT MEAT ! I AM NOT A VEGETARIAN! MY BEST FRIEND IS VEGETARIAN ! (he refuses to justify it ... I respect that , vegetarianism is no offense ... and you dont have to justify everything) MY FATHER WAS A GOOD HUNTER ! I DONT TRY TO CONVERT VEGETARIANS ! I WONDER WHY PEOPLE ARE VEGETARIANS ! (I might even try to understand it ?) I THINK VEGETARIANISM IS BOTH UNHEALTHY AND UNNATURAL! (but so are many things we do - like spending hours on the web :-) David Harrison gave a good explanation - Disney is to blame. So "paleo-mothers" - take your kids hunting , learn them how to slaugter animals. Why not buy a live chicken , and slaugter it yourself- just to teach the children that "Killing an animal is not cruel" . (I like this quote from Jim Walsh). BTW does there exist some beautiful and positive descriptions of animal killing ("hunting poems"?) You may call me a romantic or worse (immature ,indoctrinated by Disney ...) but I refuse to regard animals just as "stuff" or "meat producing units" . What I eat , I make part of myself. Therefore I want it to be beautiful and good. I want the animals I eat to have lead good and beautiful lives, to be fine and strong. Theese are my ideals - often though I just have to eat some delicous bacon, probably from a "factory animal" - then I think it is fitting perhaps, because I'm a "factory human" like the pig , tied up for hours at work, in front of a PC, without sunlight, without fresh air. I'm not a "free-range human" . Thats another discussion ... eating paleo - living NON PALEO ! ? ... Perhaps I will go hunting some day. Esben