I have a few members in my family that are vegan/vegetarian and they don't understand how I can eat meat when I'm such a huge animal lover.    I don't like how the farming industry works and how animals are mistreated, so like Skcup I try to buy locally.  We have a farmer down the road that we see the cattle out every day in their pasture.  In the summer time, he starts butchering and selling (he actually kills them right in field which took me my surprise one day driving by).

I would much rather eat a cow that had lived it's whole life in a huge grassy field than one that has been mishandled and treated like crap when it was time to be slaughtered.  I don't have a problem with that.