Because it is cruel to raise and slaughter poor little defenceless animals just to sate our unnatural appetites.
Did I get that one about right?
I don't eat meat, fish , eggs and the like because it makes me puke.
I never could eat it. ( Probably because I got vaccinated as a child, if you ask Murphy, vaccines being the root of all evil).
It has nothing to do with dietary reasons or " poor little animals" reasons.
I just can't eat it, which is annoying as hell.
I used to buy a bunch of bull calves every spring, graze them on my land and come fall, kill them and sell their meat.
Every time I had visitors from the US, I'd welcome them to the only vegetarian cattle ranch East of the Pecos River.
So all those vegetarian "meat-lookalikes" I avoid, because they make me think of meat and puke.
There are certain wild mushrooms that I don't eat because of their meat like texture.
So even though I'm real sure Bill Gates would like me to, I'm not going to eat synthetic beef.