Your analogy using a vampire doesn't work, it would only be comparable if those humans are all in a factory destined to be slaughter in a world rule by vampires. I've been to Japan with a vegetarian friend and it just seems the people there can't completely comprehend not eating any animal at all, especially seafood. That's the kind of society Hachiken was raised in, so his values toward eating animal is created in that environment. For him to suddenly change everything he believes in because he saw a cute piglet, that would be shallow. As Ryllharu and other people have said, Hachiken does not seem to have any moral dilemma in regard to eating animals. He just feel a certain amount of attachment to the pig and has trouble dealing with the reality of farm animal life.It's perfectly fine for you to see it as being less important, but it is anything but meaningless. So far, it's the only reason that these animals need to die for.
I think i already stated in my other post that even if the entire earth population convert to vegetarianism, it would still be necessary to kill animals. "Because animal taste good" is definitely not the only reason they are being killed.
It actually bothers me a bit that the moral issue only comes up whenever the act of eating meat is involve. There's plenty of other thing that most human beings currently enjoy at the expense of animals. All the technology that you are currently using is the result of mass mining/deforestation that destroyed the homes of many animals and brought many species to extinction. The electricity you're currently using is partially from burning of coal that pollute the environment. The many products that you consume is the direct result of industrialization. Many of the benefit that you enjoy as a member of a first world nation comes at the expense of animals and humans from less developed part of the world. When it comes down to it, do you really need a lot of these things to just live? Probably not. I seriously doubt that most people is going to give up all of their modern convenience while knowing all these facts, so the only reason that you really do it for is for your own enjoyment, convenience and comfort. This moral dilemma is most often brought up when associated to meat because you can make a direct correlation between the act of you eating and the death of an animal. That is not the case with some of these other things. So it's really comes down to "out of sight, out of mind".
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