Animals eat other animals. Some of us in more privileged positions of society have the knowledge and means to avoid eating those animals if we so choose. This doesn't mean that certain animals are NOT food...
There are plenty of reasons to not eat meat but attributing consumption of meat to "conditioned cognitive dissonance" is not only a vast oversimplification, it's just a dumb point.
There are plenty of reasons to not eat meat but attributing consumption of meat to "conditioned cognitive dissonance" is not only a vast oversimplification, it's just a dumb point.