i am a meat eater aned bascially i agree with you - if you eat meat you should kill the animal yourself. seriously. someday i plan on having my own organic farm where i will raise cows and chicken among many other things. i will treat the animals with dignity and harvest them with gratitude. i know many think eatimg meat is murder and all that, but i personally believe that mistreating animals is wrong. but raising them is humane conditions and harvesting them with painless methods and eating them with gratitude is not cruelty, it is natures way.