Good for you VEGAN Don Corleone. For the most part I could not agree more with you. But I would like to focus on the ambiguities associated with the logics that you have articulated. Humans are considered advanced animals. So, the adjective “advanced” would put us right up there at the top of the food chain and the same adjective could be used to qualify the way we use different techniques to kill animals or even humans in some cases. Cannibalism is not that rare in animals and presumably not in advanced animals by the name of humans. You wrote that “vegetarianism is a trait imbibed from birth and strengthened through mental and physical growth.” It is true to an extent but there are person who are vegetarian not by birth but by choice. If I am not mistaken you seem to be vegetarian by birth, if so, lots of the reasoning that you have presented are mere coincidental to your personality. Now the use of the term “ethical issue” doesn’t fit the bill in your case because you are not vegetarian by choice but by birth or in other words you did not have the choice of eating meat in you earlier days. “Is eating an animal eating a dead body?” I would say for the most part yes, unless you gorge on the animal alive and make no mistake the dead body that I am implying here is not human body. Just because you don’t see the suffering of plants doesn’t mean that they don’t have the sensation of pain. I agree that the suffering is more visible in animals but it doesn’t mean that the things you don’t see don’t occur at all. Let’s not bring god into this equation at all because it would be trite as we are not sure of the absolute truth. If you are spiritual or practice meditation or something along these lines you might know better than rest of the people otherwise we are in the same plane of consciousness. Make no mistake, you have some valid points.