Thank you Crystal for this thread...it is really a food for thought for many, i hope. One can't force another to give up meat....It will come spontaneously when they understand and when the compassion becomes greater than the craving....
PS. there were so many studies in different subjects that contradict one another, it all depends who pays for it. I remember years ago there was a study saying that eggs are bad for you because they raise your cholesterol, a few years later a new study showed that eggs were good for you. coffee was bad for you bacause of this and that, this and that.....then I read that coffee is good for you because of this and that, this and that.....The earth used to be flat once

, and it was proved by science...now it is round...