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.