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Nothing hypocritical about that, I see no reason why you can't be a meat eater & care for animals, the most important thing that I care about is if I am going to eat an animal then it must have had a good life & a swift end, I'm not into all this "meet the meat" type thing but I fully support any campaign that trys to educate people on the welfare standards of our farmed animals aswell as the meat that is imported from other countries that have a dispicable welfare record, its very difficult sometimes to get people to see what happens to that animal before it ends up in plastic trays in the shop!

My mum is a classic case, a few years back I remember being in a supermarket & she picked up some eggs (battery) & when I said to her about them the reply was "Well I'm not going to make a difference by stopping buying them" maybe not but multiply that by a few thousand people & BINGO!

She has come to visit us a few times (she lives the other side of the country) & has seen the state of the battery hens we have taken in & then watched them a few months later running about in our garden, I am glad to say the last time I visited she had free range eggs in her fridge    the moral of this story is you can't force people to buy better meat they have to make that choice for themselves all we can do is provide the information on all the aspects of what that animal went through before ending up on your plate.