disliking/avoiding meat due to a dislike of the taste, etc, i can perfectly understand. disliking/avoiding meat because the animals suffered, etc? sure, i imagine it might be a little unsettling to some but meh? not to me. much like evangelicals or atheists, i prefer it when vegetarians don't try and convert me. eat what you want, so will i
beyond that, when a vegan/vegetarian tries to convert me, i respond with various hyperbolic situations. The first of which states that all vegetarians want us to be killed by cancer - freeing all the animals in captivity = no more animal testing = reduced likelihood of cancer vaccine, etc = everyone dies. The second states that simply freeing every animal in captivity would cause massive road blocks and injuries when the 10 billion chickens and how ever many other billions of animals we have wander the streets, crapping everywhere and randomly dying(or just immediately get killed by other animals who weren't grown in captivity, and are merely doing what we're apparently not meant to...). YES, i understand that these statments are clearly examples of catastrophising, and so presumably biggoted, but hey, it's a rhetorical tool, alright?
granted, vegetarianism doesn't necessarily equal freeing all the animals, but considering that there'll be little other use for them, the only options are to free them all or kill them all... a massive inconvenience or a massive slaughter... seems like an odd course of action to be pushing for... (and hey, if we go the slaughter option, why not just eat the meat anyway instead of wasting it? hehehe)
but seriously though, meat is a rather large section of most economies and (presumably) damn helpful to surviving in 3rd world countries... cutting it out would probably mean the extinction of several species now dependent on humans, or at least the deaths of starving kids!!! (another rhetorical statement, if that wasn't clear)