In regards to eating meat

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Ra said trees, and even locations.

They said "the vegetable, most especially the tree." This could include carrots.

You mentioned everyone except the animal!

The individual animal may or may not feel ready to die. However, from the point of view of the species it is absolutely a good thing. How many cows or chickens do you think there would be now if they weren't in a symbiotic relationship with humans? White-tailed deer in the eastern US are not as healthy as they will be when the mountain lion returns.

I agree with that. But what does that have to do with killing animals?

You keep saying, "let's start by eliminating eating meat."

The Native Americans had to kill animals to survive.

Actually, they didn't. They produced sufficient corn, beans, squash, etc, that they could have foregone meat. They chose not to.

The choice between imposing my will over an obviously individuated animal, who makes his choice clear that he doesn't want to be killed, by runnig away from me, vs. harvesting a primitive lifeform out of a pristine eco-system capable of feeding the planet? You see no difference between those?

I see a difference in that I see harvesting an animal that has been humanely raised near to you or lived in the wild nearby is preferable to buying a product that comes in a plastic container and is shipped from thousands of miles away.