There's no reason we, as humans, have to eat animals to survive. There are animals which need it for their organisms to functions properly or they would die. Think difference of cats and dogs. Dogs can survive without meat but cats not so much. Humans can survive, but it's just missing marketing and educations and related mass production of alternatives that's still fueling farming of animals as an energy source. I'm not a vegetarian as I don't reject meat when it's on my plate, but I don't actively seek the meat.

I mean, if you hunt an animal for sport, then you better eat it as well, or just leave hunting to park rangers who do it for ecological reasons.

> dogs yet the latter are not eaten

Yes, it's a huge hypocrisy that we condemn those who eat dogs, but I like to think it's because dogs have been man's best friend for so long that we have an emotional attachment too strong to break.