Is not eating meat for this reason any better than just only buying from farms that are free range and cruelty free - so you support humane farms. The problem

Is not eating meat for this reason any better than just only buying from farms that are free range and cruelty free - so you support humane farms. The problem with vegetables is they have a lot of compounds that stop nutrient absorption. You do not absorb iron easily from vegetables. But a roaming animal that eats grass and vegetables digests them and makes their nutrients readily absorbable when you eat their muscle. I think we are more evolved to eat meat than plants honestly. Do you think the plant wants to get ripped out of the ground, sliced up and eaten by you? Probably not. You're not any more noble than a meat eater.