I tend to agree that people who eat meat and outsource the dirty work without a care in the world as to how it gets to their table are just as guilty as the operators.

That’s actually somewhat fair. It’s not entirely baseless. The basis for my claim is your previous statement that “most people don’t abuse animals.” This is factually incorrect, and easily disproved with just the scantest effort. It’s the sort of claim a person makes for the sake of moral license rather than for the sake of argument. To manage their own feelings rather than for how convincing it will be to others. Based on that, I made the assumption that you practice the sort of animal abuse I described in my previous comment. I don’t know for a fact that you consume factory farmed animals, but in the absence of further evidence to the contrary, I feel perfectly fine with that assumption. The conclusion that you are an animal abuser then becomes an unavoidable consequence.