I wasn't joking about the years of psychological abuse. If someone you really hate forces you to do something simply to flaunt their authority over you, you never want to do that thing again.
But, I do think it's commendable that you try to avoid killing animals. I have no problem with people eating meat, but I believe people should be respectful about it, you know? Most people ignore the implications of eating conventional meat:
1. By purchasing it, you are provided "agribusinessmen" an incentive to keep shoving animals in as small of cages as they can possibly get away with and killing them in a humiliating fashion after feeding them the remains of other animals (beef tallow is very common at feed lots).
2. Your consumption of meat (not yours, I'm just making an example) requires that an animal be killed. You figure that alone would be sobering enough to make people at least cut their meat consumption back to maybe twice a week.
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I have met people who believe that animals are unconscious "things" designed solely to be eaten or killed. Now, I'll make jokes about that sort of thing, but in reality, I think it's sickening that anyone believes that. In fact, even after the enlightenment (correct me if I am wrong, Bo), there were philosophers who believed that an animals cries as it was being killed were the equivalent of cogs grinding against one another and that the animal couldn't actually feel pain.