Short 'essay': 'Contradiction(s) of being an animal-lover and a meat-eater'

Short 'essay' I wrote on IMDb regarding the 'Contradiction(s) of being both an animal-lover and a meat-eater', in full. A little more polite than usual as to not get my ass banned from IMDb. Original post here.

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There is no contradiction. Humans are omnivores. You don't just 'stop' being a carnivore/omnivore/whatever by choice, it's what we are. We can be a 'non-practicing' omnivore, sure, but humans, biologically and physiologically, cannot truly be 'vegetarians' like horses and cattle and whatever. We're meant to eat meat, hence our canines and appropriate gastrointestinal tract. We're supposed to have servings of both vegetation and meat, it's in our genes, so really the only objection people have against it comes from ethics. Personally, I've always found vegetarianism to be a bit hypocritical. It's a 'doctrine' (I call it that for lack of a better word; if someone has one do let me know) that commands not to eat meat, yet no vegetarians complains about all the other animals and creatures on the planet that live according to 'eat or be eaten'. Why just humans, then? Why should we be the ones to stop eating meat and not anyone/anything else? Because we've got taller IQ scores?

Personally, I'm a great animal-lover. I love just about all animals on Earth (except perhaps some of the frankly ugly ones, like the Proboscis Monkey or Hyenas, which aren't the most charming IMO), with a special soft spot for canines and horses. Seeing someone mistreat an animal though, no matter which – pet or livestock or whatever – makes me want to bash their damned skulls in with a brick. Seeing how some slaughterhouses treat cattle, like they were items devoid of capacity for pain or torment, is no better IMO. One of my passions is animal conservationism.

Yet I also do eat and love meat. Fish, chicken, steak (though not too crazy of that), burgers, whatever – I love that stuff, and certainly do not plan to stop eating it anytime soon. Does that make me, in any way, a hypocrite, a liar, or a 'false' animal-lover? Hell no. Anyone who says such is an ignorant fool, and nothing more.

Face it – humans are meant to eat meat. Refusing to do so is fine of course, but it's not like we're meant not to eat meat, vegetarianism is simply going against our very biological and physiological nature(s). Hence why vegetarians need replacements and substitutes like lots of soy, legumes, tofu, etc. – those things replace the minerals and fat and protein and whatever that they would normally get through meat. You try living without either meat nor legumes/tofu/etc. See how long you last. (Not a threat.)