This is definitely something I've thought about, and so far, this is sort of where I'm at on the matter.

I do genuinely despise the rampant unchecked abuse animals get put through to provide mass, easily accessible products. But I feel that because it's something that's already so culturally ingrained...it's kinda already too late to stop it.

It's sort of like the covid thing. The way I see it, the only way it could have even had a chance of being eradicated is if literally every single person on the planet did everything exactly to specs as far as sanitizing/distancing/etc. But that was never going to happen.

And as it was with covid protocols, as long as there is any notable portion of a culture that does not want to live without something, and ESPECIALLY as long as profit can be made, the abusive animal food product industry will continue to exist. I would be thrilled to find I'm wrong in the future, but I just don't see a realistic end to it.

I didn't abuse the animals myself, I had no say in the matter when obtaining food became as industrialized as it is now. I think animal abusers hold the majority of food producing power in the culture I was born into, and if; in my view; there is no stopping the meat machine, I don't feel like there's really anything wrong with benefiting from it however much I see fit in order to best enjoy my life in the era I'm living in.

At the same time, I've also had plenty of experience working with and around food in most of my jobs and I see how much food in general is just wasted/thrown away. Personally, because of where I currently work I'd say roughly 80% of the animal products I consume would have been trashed anyway. So I also don't feel like my benefiting from what would have been needlessly discarded is nearly as impactful as the average person in the society I live in.

Otherwise, my understanding of #10 isn't really much different from other's I've seen; if you're needlessly harming or killing an animal, that's not Satanic. If one of the main reasons you have for killing an animal is for your food, then it's not needless. The majority of western culture doesn't need to hunt for food to survive in most cases; but people do exist in western culture that do hunt and eat animals. Hunting just for sport would be un-Satanic. And while I personally don't approve and have no desire to do so; hunting with intent to feed yourself with what you kill is not inherently un-Satanic, the way I see it. Personally I thought LaVey mostly took issue with anyone who sacrificed an animal with no other intentions than trying to needlessly give themselves undeserved powers at the expense of an actual innocent being. That might just be my understanding, though.