Why I am not a vegan

[anagogy]

You are illustrating bias here. You say those actions wouldn't be consonant with the Law of One? Why not?

No bias.  And because they aren't in line with STO (the path of unity -- though, to be fair, it is more a spectrum than a binary situation).  You think that eating animals is inherently STS, hence you think this is a bias on my part.  

Naturally, I disagree with said assertion.

It is impossible to eat meat without abusing the animal. Killing a sentient entity is the ultimate abuse.

Disagree.  Strongly.  You can't make blanket statements about was is STS and what is STO.  Or what the ultimate sin is.  This is not Monica's 10 commandments.  Every situation has to be carefully appraised and evaluated, and appropriate judgment exercised.

If you had a sick animal, that you loved and cared for, and it was suffering, would you just let the suffering continue, or would mercifully kill that sentient entity?  

Surely you can see my point about not defining things so black and white?  

Their desire to live isn't different. Their capacity to feel pain and fear is exactly the same as ours.

I don't disagree they feel pain, and that they desire to live, but you're kidding yourself if you think animals have the same perspective as being used for food as you do.  

Do you maybe think the animal consciousness knows the kind of world it is incarnating into?  Because I assure you it does.  And if they didn't want to participate in the game of life, they simply would not come forth to play.

And many don't, and don't incarnate anywhere near humans.

Obviously, I can't prove that to you, just as you can't prove otherwise.

Carnivorous animals take care of old and diseased animals. They don't need us to help them with that. 

Furthermore, carnivorous animals hunt the old and diseased prey; whereas, human hunters tend to go after the biggest trophy, thus weakening the herd.

Humans have upset the balance of Nature.

Carnivorous animals?  You mean animals that crave that sort of protein, because they feel a call from their bodies for a particular nutrient or another?  Like people for example?  Let's not make hard an fast rules about diet.  Also, as someone who has watched a lot of carnivorous animals eat their prey in the wild, it is often NOT done quickly, but slowly and torturously painfully.  Also, many animals are not culled off by predators, and do, in fact, slowly starve to death, or get sick and are unable to move, and slowly die that way too. Not super compassionate, I assure you.

I never said I supported trophy hunting.  Again, animal abuse and eating meat are different things.  

Humans can only upset the balance of nature for a brief period of time, geologically speaking.  We are like fleas on the back of a very big dog (the Earth).  It will get rid of us if we become too irritating to it, and are chronically failing to be symbiotic with it, I assure you.  You don't have to worry about the Earth, it can take care of itself.  

Just as all beings in existence can, because we are all creating our own realities.  Though, I'm sure you probably don't subscribe to the YCYOR idea, because you don't like the implications.