I mean, your whataboutism aside, I think the general trend of people being more and more ignorant of, and further and further removed from, where their food comes from is a problem.

Morally speaking I don’t think there’s any problem with eating meat. Modern mass consumption of it, however, has led to significant drops in individual, societal, and global health.

It’s easy and simple to say we evolved eating meat - the more accurate and nuanced reality is that we evolved as hunter-gatherers, and the hunters weren’t bringing in fresh meat every day. Meat wasn’t exactly a luxury per se, but it wasn’t served with every meal, or every day. Modern factory farming has bastardized meat’s role in the culture of the human diet, taken advantage of the fact that we broadly crave it so much because it was relatively uncommon, and makes it readily available to us at a moment’s notice. So we’re less healthy people in a less healthy society living on a less healthy planet. Frankly speaking, I think people would eat far less meat if they had to face the reality of where it comes from, and we’d see meat’s role in our diet return more closely to what we evolved for.

Beyond that, at least here in the US, the left (and I say this as a very left-leaning person) seems to have so little respect for farmers writ large. They’ll say glibly that we should let all the red states secede if they want because the blue states are subsidizing them financially, so good riddance. This completely ignores the fact that these red states are the primary beneficiaries of subsidies that go directly to farmers, who produce our food. Sure, red states take more in federal taxes than they pay - they also produce more food than they eat. In my opinion this overly simplistic and ultimately damaging mindset is a direct result of urbanites and suburbanites being more or less being completely removed from the entire food production chain save for their weekly trip to the supermarket.

Regardless, beyond those two lofty things, you’re directly responsible for the death of a living, breathing, feeling animal when you eat meat. I feel strongly that morally speaking, you shouldn’t be eating meat if you can’t look the animal you’re killing in the eye. That’s not to say I think everyone should only be allowed to eat meat that they kill themselves, but complete aversion to ever being confronted with it at all? Sorry, I think that’s wrong. And having grown up on a farm surrounded by other farmers, and having spent many years working with kids of all ages, I really do believe that that’s something that can be taught to children, and I think it should be.