After reading books by Robbins (The Food Revolution
and Diet For a Small Plant our family went veggie.
Another arguement is that it takes 10 calories of
oil to make a calorie of "processed" food.  Dump
the breakfast cereal and make organic oatmeal with
fruit.  We make a pot every 4 days.  Eat less refined
foods, buy local, buy fresh.  Enjoy the seasons by
not living isolated from them and enjoy fresh foods
in season.

Going veggie is pretty easy.  For years I ate little
meat so I wasn't faced with the challenge that my wife
had - looking for something to substitute as meat.

Just have a pot-luck dinner with some veggie Indian's
and you'll discover great foods - without the focus on
a meat substitute.

A veggie diet will cut you chance of cancer by a good
factor of 4 or more and will REVERSE clogged arteries
that you already have.

We're actually somewhat aspiring vegans.  Read The China
Study and you'll see the link between dairy/mean protein
and cancer.  Milk is loaded with growth hormones to get a
calf to grow quickly.  Humans do not need them and it's
a cancer promoter that is directly linked to cancer growth.

It goes on and on.

On the flip side - we're veggies for "environmental and
health" reasons.  We see no reason to avoid free-range
meat such as chicken/cow that is raised naturally - not
grain fed.  But keep in mind that meat is not healthy -
have very little of it if you value your health.