The thing is, is that eating meat doesnt make the meat you dont eat magically revive.
My philosophy is, it is dead anyway, I shouldnt let the meat go to waste.
So you may think you are "saving" the lives of animals, but you arnt.
Also, did you know that combine harvesters that harvest your precious soy kill many many little animals and have them die slow, painful deaths?
And livestock get a quick death.