I don't think you are a jerk, I just disagree on your notion that killing animals is unethical. And since that is your primairy argument, there is little use in discussing this further. I do not see animals as people or thinking individuals and I see no clash between animals being beatiful/cool/cute and animals being food. Of course animals have feelings. So? Dying is dying, it is over very quickly in the case of slaughter and it's never nice. I am not pretending I am awaiting a pretty death (because there is no such thing), but I would be primairily concerned for the feelings of my loved ones. In the case of slaughter, the other animals won't miss the killed animal and the killed animal isn't around to mourn itself either. The animal dies in any case (or does not even exist because the animals in question are raised to be consumed) and this way I get a more varied meal and more nutritional value.