I love your post - the whole thing. I too have encountered very angry vegans - and meat eaters. My philosophy is to eat as close to the natural state of the food as possible, have it as clean as possible and if I can, raise it myself.

Plants are amazing and have so many ways of communicating we have no clue about (yet) and animals are amazing as well. I feel strongly that we need to treat the animals we eat with respect and keep them in a healthy way. So, I will spend more money on buying meat that is raised that way and I have my own chickens, of course...