I never said anything about the life in question being mine. To be honest, I don't value personally experiencing life all that much. I meant that I generally value the lives of other beings even if much of their lives involve suffering. Of course that is a ridiculously generalized statement, but the probability of a creature's happiness will usually be infinitely greater if that creature actually exists.

In any case, my main point was that a person can value the feelings of a being and still rationally decide to allow that being to be slaughtered so that the person can eat it. I don't think I would have that much more of a problem eating tasty human meat than tasty chicken meat, but I could be wrong, seeing as how I've never eaten human.