Meat eating ethical?

[Angrboda]

(by the by, about the pigs thinking oink oink....no no no...pigs are obscenely intelligent! - not directed at you tea, posters name escaped me)

I understand pigs are intelligent. What I was pointing out is that vegetarians project their interests, emotion laden ones mostly to do with death, onto the animals. Poor conditions in factory farms are something that needs to be changed, but it seems vegetarians are concerned about the killing first and foremost, and that specifically isn't a rational concern.