So how about we put the onus of hunting and preparing meat for consumption on the individual, if you want to compare apples to apples. If you want to eat meat today, do what the animal kingdom does and use the claws and fangs nature gave you to tear that raw meat apart. But something tells me you'd prefer the food industry to handle all that messy work so you can stroll down the aisle of your grocery store and pick out a nicely branded package of meat, and forget that what you're eating was a living and breathing being.