Why I am not a vegan

[Parsons]

I was not lashing out at you by calling your behavior bigoted and my intent was to use the dictionary definition of the word bigot which was not intended to be offensive.

That doesn't scan. Why not just take responsibility for the jab?

I looked up the dictionary definition of the word and it turned out to perfectly fit the situation. You can believe what you want, but I did not intend it as a jab.

If I had my way, I would have all my meat be animals which were range-fed and kept in kindness and love. Very importantly, I would have the person who slaughtered the animal show the utmost respect and understand that the animal is a part of the Creator giving itself to the Creator and thank It for It's gift to Itself.

What's stopping you?

If it's not possible in your case, then do you just throw in the towel completely as regards cruelty, and eat whatever (Notwithstanding saying the prayers of gratitude)?

I'm assuming you mean "whats stopping me" in the context of whats stopping me from doing all that myself (correct me if I'm wrong). What's stopping me is it being the opposite of practical. I guess I could try to start a farm and completely abandon my current life, but it would be extremely difficult at best for several different reasons.

From my standpoint, the only choice I have (besides starvation) is to "throw in the towel" as you say because I don't make a distinction between eating plant and animal life. I feel comparing the cruelty committed to plants vs animals is immeasurable.

I simply choose to make no distinction on what 2D creatures I eat on different levels of 2D consciousness (except perhaps pets, which are borderline 3D).

That is your prerogative of course.

Aside from the arguments here that raise questions about that idea, it sidesteps so much in the way of taking responsibility. For instance, the fact that we consume more plants raising the meat animals, then we would if we just ate plants. Does it not matter that we try to minimize the damage to life?

That is the only semi-valid point that does not have a counterpoint in this entire argument. That is what may ultimately get me to at least reduce the consumption of meat (which I already have done over the past few years). The only thing I can say about that is the plants are ultimately feeding on decaying animal matter as well (amongst other things), so the whole concept of 'eating meat means more plants consumed' could be considered to be circular logic due to the whole circle of life.