You can survive without meat longer than you can survive on a diet of meat. Vegans live longer than carnivores. So it’s healthier. And lastly you can not survive on a diet of only meat – that will kill you fast.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.