To eat or not eat

For some odd reason i woke up this morning wanting to watch a small documentary on youtube that one of my good friends had encouraged me to watch a while back. I had been dreading the documentary for quite a while now, but curiosity finally caught up with me. The documentary is called Meet your Meat. Yes, exactly what it says, "meet the meat you eat." As I watched the video, I recalled why I had dreaded the video so much. It certainly is something that you need to be prepared to watch specially if you have been a meat eater all your life. Indeed i found it to be a little or should i say much disturbing. the point is: it confused the living heck out of me. So for dinner, while cooking for my fiance, meat, because that's what we eat. I started to wonder. Is eating meat a matter of ethics, religion, or simply an act of survival? Does killing an animal mean we are killing a living organism for the sake of a good enjoyable taste, nutritional value, or for purpose of survival, the way God had originally intended.???