That is a strawman, because wild animals have neither the mental capacity to understand the consequences of their actions on other sentient beings, nor any dieat alternatives that are biologically sustainable. Humans who eat animals are cruel, because humans have other options (vegetarianism) yet they choose to kill concious beings for food anyway.
no its not we are animals wether we are sentiant or not doesnt matter, after all none of us have really been able to hammer down morals right, so what is cruel to you isnt creul to us etc. also there are alot fo benefits to eating meat, far more protein, therefore making us stronger etc, we also keep the animal population down, can you picture any other animal in the UK who will eat teh cows or pigs that now populate our planet?
Im sorry mate I just dont see your point, even if you ignore everything I have said we need to keep animal populations down, cows, sheep, pigs in the west have no natural preditors.
I would understand if you wanted it to be more humane, but come on see sense.