Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

You can choose not to support the killing of animals. There is no law that says that humans must eat animal flesh and bodily secretions. On the contrary, human anatomy shows that we are herbivores:

Over 99% of the animal products you buy at your grocery store come from the factory-farm industry. Even if you go out of your way to buy something advertised as coming from an independent farm, the animals were slaughtered at the same facilities as the factory-farmed animals (per USDA regulations). The piece of animal flesh on your dinner plate did not come from an idyllic farm where some guy in overalls read to his animals every night from children's story books.

You can choose to support the killing of animals and eat their flesh and bodily secretions. But when you then claim that you "respect and even revere the life of" the animal whose torture, killing, and dismembering you paid for, you are fooling no one but yourself.