I can understand to some degree people attaching morality to the way we treat our animals, yes, but I do NOT see why it's immoral to eat animals.  It's not immoral for other animals to eat animals, and not immoral for us to eat other animals either.  Now, how we go about killing the animal or treating it before eating it is subject to these morality issues, but I don't see how it's a problem just to eat them.

Most of the vegetarian and vegan supplement foods for meat are WAY more expensive, vegetables and such are cheaper than meat but a lot of the things you need to get up to par are pretty expensive.  Although I guess you could make it with that kind of diet cheaper, most people end up spending quite a bit.  I'm not a fan of hunting unless you do eat the meat, which a lot of people don't, and of course needless killing is immoral--that goes into how we kill animals over eating them.  And as I already said, in a lot of places killing animals is necessary for food even now because there aren't other choices, which kind of goes into the argument about animals.

if you have to eat meat to survive then absolutely, go ahead. heck even if it's grossly impractical for you not to eat meat for whatever reason, then i'd say go ahead. it is killing anything which doesn't have to die i don't like. if meat is someone's livelihood or there is nothing else to eat, it's pretty ridiculous to judge them.

I don't agree with this argument entirely either, because there are animals that DO have a choice.  There are plenty of lizards that eat mostly vegetables, but will also eat meats or insects.  Many of them can do without the meat, but would not given the choice.  The difference is that they are animals, and their choice is going to be whatever is in front of their face at the time.  Still, they make decisions, no matter how simple.  However, the argument isn't about what choices they make, it's about whether or not they have a choice in what they eat, and many animals that do eat meat could do fine without it.  It sounds really ridiculous talking about lizards choosing their foods, but I've watched them pick out meat from between a bowl of mixed meat and vegetables and only eating the vegetables when the meat was gone.  In the wild it's different because obviously they aren't given platters but their brains tend to choose meats first, vegetables later.  Their brains may be small and simple, but the point is that for a lot of them they are actually HEALTHIER and better off with very little meat, but they will choose it regardless.

Most of the vegetarian and vegan supplement foods for meat are WAY more expensive, vegetables and such are cheaper than meat but a lot of the things you need to get up to par are pretty expensive.  Although I guess you could make it with that kind of diet cheaper, most people end up spending quite a bit.  I'm not a fan of hunting unless you do eat the meat, which a lot of people don't, and of course needless killing is immoral--that goes into how we kill animals over eating them.  And as I already said, in a lot of places killing animals is necessary for food even now because there aren't other choices, which kind of goes into the argument about animals.

You know the amount of insects that die to farmers' cruel use of insecticides in their fields? How is killing insects any more moral than killing animals? Is it because of their size? No matter where you want to take your food you're going to have to kill a whole lot of stuff. Limiting yourself to killing only certain creatures and letting others live doesn't make the killing any more righteous, it just places an arbitrary right to live on certain cuter life forms.
Also most people on this planet don't have the luxury to choose what they will eat. But even there, why would they? Can you argue how killing a grasshopper is any less cruel than killing a deer, other than their respective sizes?