In 2012, the USDA estimated that Americans ate an average of 52.3 pounds of beef, 57.4 pounds of chicken, and 43.5 pounds of pork, per person. Vegetarians, about 5% of the US population, do not eat meat (including poultry and seafood).

Vegetarians say that eating meat can harm you, waste resources, cause deforestation, and create pollution. They often argue that killing animals for food is cruel and unethical since non-animal food sources are plentiful. In fact, environmental damage caused by grazing livestock has been a factor in the listing of 171 species under the Endangered Species Act.

Those who eat meat say that meat consumption is healthful and humane, and that producing vegetables causes many of the same environmental problems as producing meat. They also argue that humans have been eating and enjoying meat for 2.3 million years. In fact, two in three vegetarians are vitamin B12 deficient, compared to one in 20 meat eaters.

For me there's nothing like a good barbeque...how do you feel?