We are predators. Our eyes are in the front of our heads, we have canine teeth, our brains work off of fats and we are most healthy when we eat meat. There are many predators that all exist to keep the number of herbivores in check. The way non human predators kill their prey involves a lot of pain and suffering, and sometimes they prey is eaten alive. We are part of the balance. If predators did not kill prey, the prey would increase unchecked. Becauee the weak are not being picked off, they would breed and generate a weaker species. They would increase in numbers to where they eat all of their food and would die off. They would completely ruin their own ecosystems. Look at what happens to a pond in a city when Canadian geese are there. There are no predators so every mating couple breeds a dozen geese, then their shit causes algae blooms in the water, choking out the sun and killing everything under the water. We are not herbivores, it is our duty to keep the balance for all species on this planet.
We are part of the balance.
Fuckng lol. I love it when you meat apologists include absolute bullshit hippie shit as if it seriously fits in or represents yoyr actual beliefs. You think this about meat, and nothing else. The spiderweb-like road system, that's fine. The splitting of mountains, strip mining, that's fine. Should cities be torn down and replaced with forests and fields to maintain balance?
You're not a fucking predator if you're buying packages of meat from Lowes foods with your servant allowance. The factory armers are not predators for breeding animals in cages, raping and killing them with machines. That is not something built into our bone structure.
You have a brain, you have a soul. It's not stimulus response, or at least I hope not. You can make a choice, and just as important, you have the ability to be an arbitor of right or wrong. God built that in us.
I apologize for nothing. I can bag one deer and that will fill my freezer and last my family about 8 months. You lost this argument so you tried (and failed) to change the direction of this argument. Anything I buy from a farm is not a factory farm, I have toured the farms so when they have labels like organic, grass fed grass finished etc, I saw that they are not bullshit.
When your health takes a turn for the worse (I was pretty much where you are at now about 30 years ago) remember this: fast for at least 3 days to allow your body a chance to clean up all of the shit you have put into it. From there, eat cuts of meat with lots of fat on them and cruciferous vegetables (bok choy is excellent). You will notice that you are full/satiated a lot longer and don't need to eat as often or as much.