Why I will never be a Vegetarian

Many pagans speak proudly about being vegetarians or even vegans, that they do not support cruelty against animals and that this is something that has to change. I agree with them, but only partly, and wanted to share my point of view about this in here.
I am the first one to cry when someone hurts an animal, my dog is like my baby, my pretty boy, and I do not like how animals are treated in farms. I loathe every single person that make them suffer that way, but I still eat meat, chicken, fish, and any other product that comes from animals.
First, the human body needs vitamins, minerals and nutrients that can only be found in animal products. Yes, there are some variations, alternatives like tofu and supplements, maybe even diets made for vegetarians and vegans, but the more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me.
If I am sick, I am most likely to take a tea or eat something that helps me. I don’t like pills, yet I take them if I need to, but I never forget that its components, its chemicals, came from natural sources. The same applies for food. Why am I going to eat something created in a laboratory, in a fabric, when I can eat what nature provides?
On the other hand, human beings are predators, we are since the beginning of time, just like any other animal. Lions, snakes, sharks, tigers, and more kill in order to survive. They don’t eat, they die. Period. And zebras, giraffes, horses, cows, and more kill plants for the same purpose.
Also, eating only plants does not save animals. You taking their food, their meal, think about it. Recent investigations even prove that plants suffer when you cut them, and, in their way, they cry. Are we then supposed to eat, what, stones?
However, I cannot ignore the cruelty with which animals and plants are treated, and that’s why I always, before I taste anything, I bless what’s on my plate:

“My Goddess and God, my Lady and Lord, my Moon and Sun,Bless this meal and bless the life that had to end before it came to be”.

If Neopaganism is about being synchronized with the natural cycles, honoring nature, the connection we have with it and admitting we are part of it, why should we deny that aspect of our own nature? It doesn’t make any sense to me, to be honest, yet I respected everyone’s choice, because it is theirs, none of my business.

An organic diet seems like the most ethical way to eat to me. Animals and plants shouldn’t be used as products, receptors of hormones as if they were experiments instead of living beings. I cannot afford it right now, but I know that as soon as I can, I will feel better and healthier.

What do you think about all of this, pornies?