Reply To: PETA

000646:

There are few, if any, “neighborhood shochtim” anymore – it’s all done on a large scale a.k.a. “factory farming.” Also, we have brains and if we think, we realize that it’s not right for an animal to die just so we can eat meat. There’s no issur in being veg[etari]an. Just because the Torah says “You may eat meat” does not mean “You SHALL eat meat.”