Agree totally, I am not vegetarian, but I am a hypocrite. I can't kill animals, but I eat them when they come up all nicely packaged. I have raised beef cattle in times past. I have pets, cats dogs etc which I do treat as almost like human, in fact I feel more empathy for them than I do for most people. I couldn't mistreat them, let alone eat them. Yet I have just bought heaps of meat from other animals.

pretty much seeing other species as less than us. Life forms evolve, our ancestors were primitive mammals like other primates. Religions put man on a pedestal, higher than animals, somehow different. Yet in reality we have just attained capacity for more complex thought. Should that endow us with some sort of almost divine right?