Well i respect your honesty, i eat meat too and the point i raised was not about eating meat or not. So the issue we are discussing is not merely the killing or the non-killing of animals, but the cruelty and hate that are increasing in the world and in each one of us. That is our real problem, isnt it?
Brutality is spreading in the world like a plague, a whole nation is destroyed by its bigger and more powerful neighbor. Cruelty, hate, is the issue, not whether or not one happens to like the taste of meat.
The cruelty, the anger, the hate that exists in ourselves is expressed in so many ways in the exploitation of the weak by the powerful and the cunning in the cruelty of forcing a whole people, under pain of being liquidated, to accept a certain ideological pattern of life; in the building up of nationalism and sovereign governments through intensive propaganda, in the cultivation of organized dogmas and beliefs, which are called religion, but which actually separate man from man. The ways of cruelty are many and subtle.
As the saying goes, "you measure the degree of civilisation of a society by how it treats its weakest members". Just because you have more power in your country over an black man you dont treat him as your slave, that extends to animals as well. The meat i eat does not come out an vacuum, that meat comes from earth where all life is linked and if you miss treat an animal then you miss treat your planet and eventually you will perish. There are civilizations like the Eskimos who kill with reverence and maintain a balance but this is childishness.