Why do we eat meat?

The so-called 'ethics' of vegetarianism just don't hold up. Its hard to see it as anything but cherry-picking which creatures are important, based mostly on how cute and fuzzy. Never mind the billions of low-level organisms we digest and kill no matter what we eat. Gardening and farming vegetables kills thousands of vermin per acre - mice, snakes, bees. These are not morally important. But grazers and cute fuzzy sheep are morally important. I can't buy into that logic.

Folks can argue, intelligent creatures! But its not clear how that makes a difference. And it sounds like an argument made up after the fact - "How are we going to criticize eating pigs?"

How 'intelligent' is a hive of bees? How 'smart' is a creature in its own environment? No, its only human-like intelligence that matters. Again, what's emotionally cute and fuzzy.