I'll never forget years ago in high school a girl in class claimed to be vegetarian and that we didn't respect the animals and they died for no reason (which cows solely exist because we raise them to eat) afterwards I saw her eating pizza that day at lunch picking off the sausage and throwing it in the trash. I made sure i addressed irony in her action...she claimed the animal was dying for no reason, yet here she was taking an animal that had been slaughtered to eat then just throwing it away...truly causing it to have been wasted and die for no reason.
Animals eat other animals.
I have tried to cut back on the red meats because of how much that kills our hearts..but if someone says hey steak, I'm not turning it down.