Congratulations for having the courage of looking at animal rights critically. Most people don't dare to. I also don't see any sense in animals living in bondage and dying for my own taste pleasure in an age when we're well past survival mode and we know scientifically that we can have a balanced plant based diet. The killing humanely is kind of a funnily contradictory concept. It presupposes that killing is a human like thing to do, which is a bit strange to me. For as painless as a death is, I'm pretty sure any animal would have preferred to live on and be free, if given the choice. But somehow we have come up with this human definition of what is considered "humane" or "fair" which I'm not quite sure most people understand or even agree in its definition. Anyway, there's a really good long debate of vegetarians vs homnivores with a fairly large audience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNED7GJLY7I Worth a watch if you ever get a spare couple of hours... guess who wins?