More or less a vegetarian
I have to say I am very content with eating no more meat. It has really improved my digestion. Meat takes much longer to digest in your intestines than vegetable food. I still use eggs, cheese and occasionally fish. Fish is much easier to digest than meat.
So I don't do it out of love and respect for the animals. I do love and respect them, but I have been raised with meat and to be honest: my father was a butcher. A good butcher. And fourty years ago meat tasted much more like meat then it does today. So I was raised with good meat and not too less of it too. Having had a father whom I respected and loved very much was an important reason why it took so long for me to stop with meat. That's what you get when you get spoilt with meat like me. So if it wasn't for my dad I might have stopped earlier with meat. Meat, meat, meat. Hey...
The second reason why I stopped is that the food industry today makes it more easy with meat substitutes with additives on a vegetable base like soya. That was also more difficult twenty or thirty years ago.
I will not recommend vegetarism to everyone. You have to pick your own time to make a change. In the books of Rulof I read that Mother Nature has proper food for every stage in which human life occurs. Proper food for every attunement of the human organism in the cause of its normal evolution. Meat is part of a normal diet for people with the appropriate attunement. And I certainly do not want to be the one to take away the pleasure of enjoying good meals including meat or fish and stuff. I have enjoyed it myself way too much.
But everyone who is considering that decision I do recommend to take that step as there is an increasing urge for the developed countries to reduce the carbon footprint on the planet in any way they can.
Once your material and inner attunement evolves to higher levels or, more down to earth like me, when you just get older and your body changes, you may experience that leaving out meat can improve your health.
I don't feel guilty about eating meat. And I am not a hero or frontrunner for that matter. It is a natural part of your evolution on this planet. But now that I have stopped it adds an extra dimension to my respect for animal life around me.
I bet my father up there has grown over it way before me.
Ok dad?...