Billygoat, that is the most horrifying thing I've ever heard. How could anybody think it was okay to give a kid a cute bunny to cuddle and then murder it in front of them? I don't care if they raised the animals for food or not...that's just cruel and disgusting.
I worked with a woman once who's family would raise a couple of calves to butcher for the family's supply of beef every year. She's sitting there telling me all of these cute calf stories, how the thing is so smart and such a pet, how it plays jokes on her husband (snitches his can of nails when he's out repairing fences and makes the guy chase him around trying to retrieve them)....then she tells me they're gonna kill it. Gross, gross, gross. Don't make a friggin' pet out of the animal only to slaughter it! I'm sure I wouldn't eat any meat at all if I had to raise my own animals.
Froggy, I have stopped eating red meat for the most part. But I'm afraid I'm too lazy to give it all up entirely, at least at present. I don't like beans or tofu that well either. I'd have to be the kind of vegitarian that still ate eggs and fish. (I have thought about it...I have the cookbooks to prove it). LOL Oh, and I do agree about the undigested meat thing...for that I go on a month-long cleansing routine a couple times a year.