Have you ever tried vegetarianism? I tried it but didn't last very long. I like my meat!
I sometimes have a few meat free meals a week just so I impact animals less. i respect sentient life 
I respect your sentiment. I have read about lab-grown meat. If they become available for consumers I would try it!
Yeah I would as well. I read not long ago how some vegans dont use products like beeswax or leather or silk and I just dont understand that.
I can understand the leather but the other two are by-products. I guess everyone has their own philosophy in life!
Yeah I can understand things like not eating eggs or dairy but the other stuff seems a little extreme. 
Is it Jainism that won't even hurt bugs? Living in Florida I would be eaten alive by the skeeters!
Lol Im in Texas and yes I believe it is. Traditionally it is known as Jain Dharma.
I guess it is easier if you live in an area without mosquitoes. Most bugs are pretty harmless.
Packaged and processed foods, such as cakes, cookies, candies, chocolate, yogurt, and marshmallows, often contain unfamiliar animal ingredients, and so may be a special concern for vegetarians due to the likelihood of such additives. Feelings among vegetarians may vary concerning these ingredients. Some vegetarians scrutinize product labels for animal-derived ingredients while others do not object to consuming cheese made with animal-derived rennet. Some vegetarians are unaware of animal-derived rennet being used in the production of cheese.
Semi-vegetarian diets
pass your lips. They told all the meat-eating Kagyupas, “You can’t be a Kagyupa if you eat meat.” I did not say anything that inflammatory. If a Mahayana practitioner, who considers all sentient beings to be like their father or mother, eats the flesh of another being out of carelessness and without any compassion, that is not good. So we need to think about this and pay attention to it. All of us Mahayana practitioners, who accept that all sentient beings have been our mothers