For many years I was a sort-of vegetarian, mostly because I often have a bad reaction to beef, and did not like what I knew about the meat raising and slaughtering industry. One thing I learned is that there are a multitude of viewpoints out there. For example, vegans who wear leather shoes, on the premise that there is nothing to be gained by wasting the skin, as cattle are not primarily killed for the skin anyway.
I still don't eat beef, not over any principle but because it now tastes rotten to me (accidental mouthful here and there.) Might be that naturally raised beef would not cause the reaction; don't know. I do now see raising one's own food, meat or veg, as the sanest way to go. Anyone read the article recently posted here abut how most commercial chicken meat still has arsenic in it? Ugh.
I now find all that theorizing and wrangling over the logic of, animals do/do not have a right not to be eaten, OK to eat a plant's product but not the whole plant, endlessly boring.
JMHO, obviously.