Your first statement doesn't really have any substance to it unless you had raised and killed the pigs yourself. Assuming it was practical for you to do, I doubt you would have the gumption to go through with it.
I have no issue with killing an animal, and would happily do it myself. Don't project your own insecurities onto others, I am comfortable with what I am.
Perhaps you could expand on the basis on which you assume you act on "base instinct". I don't believe you are acting on instinct. Instinct isn't going to the shops and buying a dead animal in cling film. You are acting based on the tenets of a hidden ideology.
Meals without meat don't taste right to me, they always seem lacking. I've had enough vegetarian meals in my time to know I prefer eating meat, I have based this on many years of my life spent eating. Maybe instinct is the wrong word, maybe preferential diet of the species?
I do not seek to assert my opinion as higher importance, but what I will repeat is that I have explained in depth the basis of my choices - you continually run away from yours.
And I have mine, you just don't see it as a valid answer. I like eating meat and I care more about that than animal welfare, I'm amazed you can't understand this concept. Maybe its your condescending attitude that gets people confused with higher importance?
Correct, it is very telling.
On what basis do you assert that you should behave the same as another species?
I don't, you do. What was the whole specism bullcrap if not saying we should treat animals as equal? I was trying to relate my choice to eat my preferred diet to something you may understand.
What characteristics do you possess that give you that sense of importance then? What characteristics do you have that makes an an animal "worth less than" you? At this point your logic falls to pieces because that depends on if you have them in the "pet" category or the "food" category.
I am me, I am the most important person in my sphere of existence. Others may come and go, a few may be close, but it's still me at the end of the day. I'd still kill a pet if it threatened my existence, isn't that obvious? I just place them higher than livestock.
You continue to come out with all sorts of statements, all of which when challenged you immediately run a mile from. Just to remind you of the challenges to a few from this page alone:
Would you not expect a carnivore to inhabit the "top of the food chain"? If it is indeed possible for a food chain to have a top...
Nope, always an omnivore. Carnivores can thrive in times of plenty, but long term I'd always bet on the omnivore as it has a more varied food source.
You are conflating "natural" with "justifiable". Can you explain how you got from one to the other?
I'm still at a loss as what I need to justify, its natural?
Does your digestive system design show a "valid story"? Erm, no it does not. If it did your intestines would be nowhere near as long as they are.
You confuse genetic evolution with custom design, who said we are at our evolutionary peak? Only a fool would take what we are now and say this is it, this is the best we can be.
Explain what "specifically bred" means. Explain how that relates to justification.
OK, call it selectively bred. Bred to get the most meat. And then captive bred in large numbers just for food. But you know this, you just think throwing questions at me will make yourself look superior.
Yes, if people did not eat meat the global population of certain animal species would be significantly less - so what? What is the significance of that statement?
So you think its better these animals never existed? You are not saving animals lives, you are prohibiting their births. We eat very little wild meat anymore, what we eat is bred to die.
I don't seek agreement in any answers to these, but if you can't even begin to consider what lies behind your statements then that demonstrates that your choices are made in complete ignorance.
I have considered, and I still feel I should eat meat. You can do what you like, for whatever reason you like, but I think we should be free to eat as nature intended. That is meat.
So, now you're at a real keyboard are you going to answer any of the questions posed to you? What about my vegan uncles meat eating dog, where do you stand on that? There are plenty of others, that was just to get you started. Or you could just judge everything said beneath you again and ignore it all.