I didn't intend any personal attack, and I certainly wasn't trying to be clever. My criticism was of the way language is used in general - I must try to control my habit of taking things literally.
If anything, I feel more guilty about eating a living plant than about eating a dead animal, and yes, I have skinned and gutted rabbits, though I haven't killed one. In fact, an unfertilised egg from a free range hen is something I can eat without any feelings of guilt. It is not an unborn chicken.