One who does not eat meat. Includes Vegans, a sub-group of people who do not eat any animal products and fruitatarians who do not kill any living thing for food.
Someone who abstains from eating meat, but not dairy products (eggs can be argued for one way or the other), in protest that the meat market is so poorly regulated and primitive. We have experimental technology that allows for growing organs with stim cell research, why shouldn't we be able to grow a slab of muscle that never has to have eyes or lips?
Not to be confused with Veganism, wherein no animal products whatsoever are eaten.
Vegetarians are often a helluvalot healthier than their omnivorous fellow humans.
Someone who is conscious of the way that animals are treated in industrial farming. Someone who realises its perfectly natural to eat meat, but chooses not to because of the torture, humiliation, pain, misery, suffering and disrespect of animals. All brought about by the greed of certain money obsessed corporations and the ignorance of the (somewhat uneducated) mass public.