Maybe you're heartless and insist the knowledge that 70 billion animals suffer until they die every single year just for food doesn't bother you, but if you're pragmatic at all you can see that it's not even remotely sustainable. It's awful for the Earth and illogical - we use so much water and feed just to raise animals. Water and crops that we could use to feed people and literally solve world hunger. Not only that, but if you really, truly love meat, then you're wasting your money on grocery store shit that sucks compared to healthy wild animals.
Another reason our meat consumption defies logic is that in the West, we are completely okay with eating cows, pigs, birds, sometimes horse, etc, but the moment someone is like, "hey let's eat this young, tender puppy" or "let's go hunt a lion" it's the biggest fucking tragedy in the world. People are just "doing their jobs" when they lock pigs in cages barely big enough for him to fit into and then rip their piglets away from them while they scream, but someone who leaves their dog outside to starve to death is a fucking monster deserving of internet witch hunts and death. We learned what animals to selectively love simply based on the culture we grew up in. There's no good reason to love a stupid kitten over an intelligent pig, who can be just as fucking cute. Either you love all animals, or you don't really love any of them that much.
If things keeping going how they are, in ~100 years we are going to look back on how we enslaved and tortured and killed billions and billions on animals and condemn it. It's going to die out. We protect ourselves from the guilt and blame by ignoring it and employing cognitive dissonance. None of us are evil for it - it's human nature. But you don't have to be a part of it. You can be on the right side of history. Or you can eat a hot dog. whatevs.
