The act of eating is a service.

[Shin'Ar]

"So what does that say about the human who has, and yet still cares more about his 'animal' than his humanity?"

I would, perhaps, attach on to this, those who care for animals, but not for humanity? We find it oh so easy to love innocence, which we apply to animals, but can we accept the capacities of our total self, that is aware, and perhaps not always wholesome?

Acceptance is the thing we to avoid I think.

As soon as we consider a thing to be acceptable, we also consider it to be in no need of change, and that is not the state f mind we require to evolve.

I know that you understood I was implying the 'animal of man's nature, and I do agree with what you are noting here.

I would just not want someone to misinterpret your words to mean that if we accept that we can by nature also be evil, that simple understanding of that makes evil suddenly a good thing, or creates a situation where there is no real aspect of difference between good and evil.
The All is not good and evil existing in unity, the All is good and evil existing as opposites.

The human Being, as a process of the evolving All, evolves based upon their discrimination of opposites and the choices they make around such discrimination.

Whether the innocence of the animal consciousness, or the morality of the human consciousness, evolution is revealed in deliberation of knowledge. Choosing, knowing and acting.