Ive been vegetarian before for 3 years and tried to go back to it many times but i do struggle but i agree with all of you but like evereything in life being respectful and accepting to people/kultures different to yours should be the main goal as then everythoing else will work itself out..... is it bad karma to eat animals , ye I believe so and you do actually feel happy when you have no more meat in your system and a large part of it is probably as you say ingestiong their D.N.A. that is coded with their life (pain and suffering) but at the same time its wrong to tell other humans what to eat as its up to them and while I agree that it is a path to higher consciousness to be vege, being judgemental and condemming anyone with a different view/way of life is kind of base chakra and just generally an annoying fuckin characteristic to have but we can all agree that you wouldnt feed your pet cat a no meat diet so its fair to say a human should get the same choice and like Max Igan said if we were not truckatarians the we would all have to eart meat or we would starve and hes probablyt right but this is a long discussion for people3 who care to talk beyond all the points we have all already made and on that note im out but ill let KRS-ONE & DISL automatic see this out with the same points you made URA-SOUL..... but if my tachings from memory are correct i belive that the Vedas do say that in SamSara we are always accumulating bad Karma even through plant based diets like Valued-Customer said allthough its significently different to an animal due to the level of consciousness & awareness.....