As you pointed out, these discussions can go on forever. I just want to say a few things:1. It is easy to get all the nutrients you need from a vegetarian diet. I am a vegan and am not only in excellent health, but I enjoy a wide variety of foods -- far wider than when I ate meat, because becoming vegetarian/vegan forced me to re-think my diet and search out new and interesting alternatives. Eating as a vegan is a pleasure.
2. I agree there's a difference between the pain felt by a pig, and one felt by a fish and then a clam. Having never enjoyed shellfish, giving that up was not a problem. I gave up fish because it was easy to, and also, because I gave them the benefit of the doubt (that they felt pain -- we all know how valiantly they struggle for their lives when they are hooked).
3. I ask you to consider switching to a vegetarian diet because you already have expressed concern for animals. To you, a meat-eater, that chicken dish (or other animal dish) is simply a meal, but to the animal, it's life itself.
As you said, we have much common ground.
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