"I love animals"

>Is this not cognitive dissonance (a mental disorder)?
You seem to have mental disorder. Pigs ate human flesh after a war, so shouldn't we eat pigs too then? Shove your "muh morality" bullshit up your ass, turbo austist.

We can care deeply - selflessly - about those we know, but that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.

Why can't you love animals and love eating them?
Doesn't this just make animals very versatile creatures? Good for companionship and eats?

>how many people regularly eat meat without any seasoning
Tbh I don't regularly eat any cooked food without seasoning it

I've never been in the same social circles as vegetarians or vegans;

Just how broken of a person do you have to be to become one?

Silly vegan.

Dogs have been domesticated since ancient times to be our lovable companions. To the point where we directly effect their physical and mental states and how they respond to stimulus.

Pigs are animals we had since ancient times and domesticated it to be eaten. We altered it's genetics immensely to have the biggest/tastiest/fastest growing animal for human consumption.

They both have different functions and in the end are tools for human use, weather that use us to be loved or to be eaten.

>skin
>candies and confectionery

In which candy do they use cow skin?

Except the best and highest class piece of meat, the tenderloin, is mostly eaten with little to no seasoning.

[citation needed]

Vegetarians vary widely. Most of them are cool, at least in my experience. Some are awful. Vegans are universally bad, although I'm not sure "broken" is the word I'd use. More like "morally confused with a strong yet uninformed sense of justice with just a dash or forty of laziness."