RE: Meat is murder
"...humanity will degenerate into cannibals by then according to prophecy in the Vedas..."
Fortunately, such prophecies ring false. Sources that do, like the Vedas, are also generally no less accurate about the past. You may regard such as authoritative, but that only reveals your views are just as hallucinatory and fantastic.
I recommend to you the Mahabharata, which refutes your wishes about the past of Hindus being all peace and love.
You seem to be content with the intellectual capacity of a sacred cow. This is far below that men are capable of, and that intentional deficit of intelligence is no more admirable than the forms of murder effected by lower orders of living creatures, who tend to inflict the most disastrous of ends to their prey.
Unlike civilized men.
I enjoy reading Mahabharata, thanks. Lots of war and killing, which is fine if one needs to defend. Bhagavad gita was spoken on that battlefield before 18 million were killed in battle apparently. War is one thing, but unnecessary harm to defenseless animals is another. I'm a simple fool, I still dream of peace.
Wishing you peace brother.
Life is an act of war. Every blade of grass struggles to defeat it's neighbor. Carlos Santana posted that of all the animals, it is solely men that have gained the capacity to wage peace. I do not disagree that peace should be our goal, but deranging nature by failing to undertake our evolutionary purpose is not how to achieve it.
That leads to madness.