ah yes as mentioned above.. and I quote Mike Warnkie......."If god don't want me to eat meat, how come he put the wrong teeth in my head".
Specificaly for " Christian ideological vegetarians"........there is a passage cant remember chapter and verse (sorry I was never a keen bible scollar)... where god give a vision to the opostle Paul, where he let a mat down that had all sorts of creatures both clean and unclean.......and he was told to kill and eat...........while this is a parable to paul that he should also preach to the non jews........it plainly shows that meat eating is acceptable for both jews and christians.
the bottom line is that iff you are in a situation where the "vego environmentalists" are preaching their stuff......the most effective argument is to point out that their agenda is to stop all meat eating..........that wil turn off most who are listening.
lets face it these people have the luxury of being vegitarian in a wealthy culture.....a choice that many would not have.
If the world were to go vegitarian think how much intensive agriculture would be required......considering that humans are very inificient at converting starch to protien.
this is nothing more than "pussy / puppy thinking".
cheers