I'm a vegetarian for a few years now and it didn't/doesn't harm my body, for example my blood values are normal. I started after having seen a video of how animals are treated (lol), but now it is a mental thing, like I want to have a "clean" body and mind (the same with not taking drugs). But its for myself and I don't regard meat eaters as dirty or cruel people
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me - to me, the dazed, the disappointed, the barren, the broken.