I choose not to eat meat because I have more energy and feel healthier when I don't eat it. I also think it's a little disgusting, but that's probably because I haven't had any for a while.

I didn't say that it's unjustifiable. I said that I don't do it. There are a lot things that are justifiable that I don't do.

As for eating shoes, what other people do doesn't have anything to do with the dietary choices that I make. Even if people ate their shoes for fun, it doesn't change the fact that *I* don't eat my shoes, and I don't eat meat. I never said that it didn't happen, just that I don't do it.