Jacoby wrote:
Can you ask a wild animal to not eat meat? They kill animals for food and in some fairly gruesome ways. How are humans any different?
Animals in the wild eat other animals in order to survive. Many humans, on the other hand, eat animals for reasons other than survival, such as taste and pleasure. It is okay for wild animals to eat other animals because they must do so to live. Man has been given free will, something animals hasn't.
Even the religions tell us to be vegetarian, not to eat unclean meat:
Genesis 9:3-4
“Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.”
Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
Genesis 1:30
"And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food. And it was so."
Romans 14:21
"It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble."