I am a vegetarian, I have been for about 4 years now. I don't eat any meat or flesh of animals.
Oh, that is interesting. What made you decide to become a vegetarian?
I mostly object to eating meat for ethical reasons, I respect sentient life. 
I see. Do you think a vegetarian diet is more healthy than a meat-eating one?
I'm sure it's healthier in some ways. I am mostly concerned with the treatment of animals and animal rights advocacy. 
Yeah, I understand. Factory farms don't give animals much freedom to move around.
Intensive animal farming
Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known as factory farming, is a production approach towards farm animals in order to maximize production output, while minimizing production costs. Intensive farming refers to animal husbandry, the keeping of livestock such as cattle, poultry, and fish at higher stocking densities than is usually the case with other forms of animal agriculture—a practice typical in industrial farming by agribusinesses. The main products of this industry are meat, milk and eggs for human consumption. There are issues
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