Veggies or not?

  Tonight I had dinner with some lovely, politically aware, social activists.  As you can imagine, the talk was lively and extremely interesting.  From the fracking in the Alberta tar sands to the Peace Fairy of Calgary, the conversation covered a fair bit of ground.  One the topics was food.  The meal had been prepared with food all locally grown.  Several at the table have food issues so the meal was also gluten, dairy, sugar and seed free.  It is a wonder I could eat anything!  I must admit it was delicious. 
    One of the guests grew up on a farm.  He said that if we actually saw the conditions in which the cattle and chicken were raised, we would never eat meat again.  I have been toying with the idea of becoming vegetarian for exactly that reason.  I do believe that the stress and angst of the animals is held in the bodies and thus in the meat produced.  Passing a full truck of cows with their pink noses sticking out on their way to the slaughterhouse yesterday, I pondered again the source of my food.
   The problem is, I don't like vegetables much.  Any root vegetable besides carrots, ugh.  Tofu looks slimy. Raw tomatoes and okra, yuck.  You can see the problem.
  I don't eat a lot of red meat but I love a good hamburger.  But it appears even that is being ruined by the addition of pink slime.  Sigh.  Maybe a nice piece of gluten free, dairy free, sugar free bread and a glass of water will do me, or maybe I will just have to suck it up and eat my veggies !