A question for vegetarians

I am not vegetarian, and I have always said I will never become one as I believe that killing an animal for food is acceptable, within certain boundaries. If I asked myself if I believed that farming is an ethical way to provide meat to the population I would have to say no.
It encourages people to be ignorant of their food and the process behind it.

Anybody who eats meat should be able to accept where and how that animal was raised and killed and appreciate it for what it is.

Since moving to Poland I have started to eat less meat as the connection to the reality of meat is very weak here. In the UK it is possible to buy meat that is humanely raised and the question of animal welfare is being voiced increasingly. By contrast, here meat is eaten in huge quantities and the majority is intensively reared meat.........to be honest it tastes pretty crap.

This seems to be the product of a swift change in society post communism. My wife's great grandparents raised their own meat and killed a pig once a year. They ate meat only once a week. There are many people I speak to(not only young people) who say that they remember meat in the past and the fact that it was a delicacy reserved for special occasions and that it was much better quality.

So personally I have a dilemma.......should I continue eating the meat that is the product of a system I can't agree with? I now rarely buy meat, maybe once every two weeks, but I do buy fish and I would buy game if I could afford it. I never eat chicken if I can help it - it really tastes like crap, although I was tempted to buy a live chicken at a market the other day.....if only I had a place to keep it.

I guess that places me in the flexitarian group.........a kind of fence sitter(damn I hate fence sitters.)