are vegetarians more ethical by not eating meat?

[The Magic Pudding]

One claim made by vegetarians is that it is people should not kill and eat animals because it is unethical. I believe it is just as ethical to be a meat eater if not more ethical.

1- animals are consumers which feed on plants. They have adapted by consuming plants that make sugars and feeding themselves (most of them). Therefore under deontological theory they have broken a duty which is when we define it as unethical. This action was taken on a free agents choice to kill and consume the life of the plants which have not broken the ethical theory. Therefore would it not be ethical to consume the consumers do to the fact that willingly feed on other life (other meat eaters apply). Meaning we would no longer have decide whether to break the ethical code to kill and consume the consumer. While this has be chosen to do so by us or else it would according to the 2nd dimension of categorical imperative be unethical because if not
freely acted then the alternative would be by force.

2-if you were making a choice to deprive yourself from meat you would still be taking innocent life. A life that has adapted to being reliant upon it's self. You also are in a sense approving of self-destruction by neglect to necessary nutrition. You would have to consume many vitamins, supplements and still be deprived of certain things

- http://drlwilson.com/Articles/vegetablediets.htm

So in doing this you are bringing about harm to you're body of which you have the knowledge and capability to avoid. No more than cutting being ethical should these freely acted diets beconsidered ethical.

So what do you think?

I find that a bit hard to follow.
Herbivores can feed on grasses without killing the grass.
Plants evolve to offer bits of themselves to birds and insects to spread their seed.

I accept the ethic that causing suffering is wrong, mostly.
I don't have much empathy for harvested vegetables.
I think we know animals are treated badly to minimise cost.
I'm offered lamb and veal, don't tell anyone but I'm not easy with eating babies, I have some knowledge of cost accounting, I suppose it pays to kill them young.
If we get lab meat animals won't have to die but they won't be born and get to live for a while either.
I think some defence of meat eating is rationalisation, some opposition to harvesting grazing animals is irrational.
Pigs and chickens are often raised badly.
Too many people make us squeeze the world to hard.
I've never been vegetarian, the only things I've killed to eat were fish.
When I'm paddling, it pleases me to see fish swimming about.
I respect the choice of vegetarianism, I wouldn't necessarily surrender the moral high ground to them though.