@g0rph Ah. I didn't mean to say you were
totally alone- I understood you were saying that the people you're close to in real life aren't veg. I'm in the same boat; most of the folks I know who
are veg are those I met when I went looking to meet vegetarian people. I still love my non-vegetarian friends and relatives just as much as I did before I went vegetarian.
But I don't think the situation is the same as in the Matrix movie: the omni folks I know perceive reality clearly- but unfortunately (VERY unfortunately) they see most animals as not having intrinsic worth. I think they know that animals can feel, are aware, and enjoy their own existences (but I don't think they grasp that at least animals also feel love). They believe that animals can be used in ways that kill those animals, but so long as all this is done "humanely"(???!!!!), and the animals are content so long as they live, this is not ethically wrong. (Please don't ask me to explain. I can't.)