If I understand you correctly, your argument for eating meat is so that Mexican farmers don't suffer producing plants?

Nope. My argument is that no method of feeding this world is without cruelty and suffering. We have a lot of growth to do as civilization before that will be otherwise. It probably won't happen in our lifetimes.

I'm really sorry to hear that you don't have any local farmer's markets where you can buy healthy fresh produce.

I do. But it shows how privileged you are that you don't seem to count those who don't have such options as worthy of discussion.

The bottom line is, we know that we can live full healthy lives without exploiting animals, to still chose to do so because we can is not rational.

You have a theory, and very little evidence.

"Hey, I'll give you money if you let me shoot this deer so that you can save the deer." Replace deer with the name of any loved one and you'll see the ridiculousness of the idea of using killing to stop extinction.

You have no experience with wilderness, or wildlife management, that's what's really obvious.

Would you prefer that there be fewer deer? That no one hunts them, so no one feels the need to preserve their habitats against the market forces that would develop them into high-rises and factory farms? That those few deer that do exist die by fang, or by blood poisoning from a broken bone? That they go extinct so that no one can hunt them?

Obviously we value life VERY differently.

Obviously.