[Superkid11]

I can't find any conclusive facts for or against the ability of humans to survive without meat with a properly planned diet. I mean, obviously they can survive, or all the vegetarians would be dead-- but I mean survive and live well.

I've been having a debate in my head over the treatment of the animals. It is a fact that farm animals are not emotionless biological machines, this is just something that we tried to convince ourselves to justify their treatment. They do think, we just don't know how life is from their perspective.
But would animals being treated well before their deaths be better? I suppose the resulting meat and milk and eggs and such would be better, but it may be emotionally taxing on the farmer. If a farmer has the concience to treat them well, the fact that they're going to die for our food later on may not set very well with them. However, I've seen a fully automated milk farm that was a very hospitable environment for the cows. They were even milked when they chose to be.(unless another cow was on the milker at the moment)

And from the animal's prospective... an animal who is living a very good life will naturally want to live more, but that's obviously not going to happen. They need to enjoy themselves with what little time they would have. On the other hand, an animal that has been very horribly treated and has had a horrible life would probably view the slaughter as a relief. So typical awfully treated farm animals may welcome death's cold embrace to relieve them of their pain.

Either way, if humans can indeed survive and live well without meat with a properly planned diet, then most of humanity is simply not ready for a major conversion from meat to no meat. Especially in America. I'm not saying we never will be, we just need to allow our way of thinking to evolve more.
This is why I'm not taking part in vegetarianism. Our minds are not yet primed to the point where such a thing would be helpful, and I have not seen enough conclusive proof to take me off meat for personal reasons. And of course, if we do get off meat what then are we going to use all the animals we bred for the purpose of meat for? They can't survive in the wild at all, they're bred to be what they are. Though I suppose they'd be ok as pets. (I've kind of entertained the idea of a pet chicken.) Pigs are proven to be able to be kept as pets.