"The [human] species will never learn to co-exist if given total freedom."

[sjel]

Instead, as my spirituality is spiraling positive, it seems like eating meat serves as a drag on my progress. Most of the time the slowdown isn't traumatic, just more like being grounded back to an unpolarized state

I have felt exactly this. I'm vegetarian for a month now, going on completely vegan. I ate several eggs yesterday and actually felt the same way I used to feel after eating meat: heavy, unpolarized, spiritually slow, clogged up in my energy centers. Vegan it is!