You say “Connecting the dots between muscle and meat made me feel, in a way I hadn’t before, honest.”

How honest is it to say that animals are “harvested”? They aren’t crops. They are sentient animals who feel pain, just like human animals do. If you want to be honest then say they are killed.

You say that animals who are shot “die with dignity.”

Is the same true for human gunshot victims? Is being held captive (albeit with more room than a pig in a gestation crate) and then shot and eaten really dignified?

You say that you go “hunting in the deli case.”

If the animals you eat are already dead, and you didn’t kill them, then it isn’t hunting. It’s scavenging.

You say that you felt “sadness” when the buffalo was killed and that the other buffalo “mourned” the buffalo’s death and that this “humbled me to my carnivorous core.”

Do you really think that true carnivores feel sadness when they kill and eat animals?

Again, I respect your decision. I think everyone should boycott factory farming. But by saying that needlessly slaughtering animals is “humane” I think you are being as dishonest as those who would cram 100,000 chickens inside a windowless shed and call them “free-range.”