Thanks for this piece. I'm Buddhist and pescatarian, which I've been for longer than I've been Buddhist. I more or less agree with you. Since becoming pescatarian, I also have done some veg farming and learned that indeed it is impossible to grow food without killing or harming other beings. And additionally, the cycle of life and death is what keeps ecosystems functioning. It's the sad reality of samsara. So I kind of use my food growing as a lesson in renunciation.

For those into the more religousy aspects of Buddhism, you can pray for the person who slaughters your meat (and of course the animal too), wishing that their karma is purified, or that the negative karma they generate ripens upon yourself so as to free them from this burden. :)