are vegetarians more ethical by not eating meat?

[Creed of Heresy]

It won't help either way, but he is laying the claim that eating meat is itself immoral...when there are starving children out there in the world who never get ANY food. He has no factual basis in his claim about eating animals being immoral in any way, so it's merely his opinion...meaning he's in a nation, a culture of plenty, and saying that eating meat is unanimously wrong because it's immoral. And I'm asking, what about those starving children? If you cannot value a human life over an animal life...that means you would deny them much-needed sustenance if it came from the death of an animal.

It has nothing to do with actually helping starving children. I do that at the soup kitchen, and it's good as I can give since my travel abilities are kind of non-existent right now. It's a matter of taking some smug holier-than-thou stance of supposed morality, which when you look at it, isn't nearly a quarter as noble as this halfwit would like to think. It's ok, at best, if you're a vegetarian for health reasons; the science is inconclusive but if you honestly believe it's better for you, whatever. But the moment someone starts trying to lord themselves around as some paragon of morality when the most these armchair crusaders do is type furiously at a keyboard, by utilizing what is in reality a pretty fucking immoral set of ideas, then their ass is mine.