Complacent Ignorance in the topic of Carnivorism

I feel that the manner in which Davis Wallace avoidance of the issue of whether or not there is a moral defense in favor of eating meat. I too consume meat because it is something that I enjoy. To me it seems that meat is a part of American culture (and more generally a culture of affluence), personally I was raised to eat a meal with a meat, a starch, and a vegetable. I feel that Wallace is alluding to the fact that in our modern culture individuals are very much separated from the actual process of killing and butchering an animal, while they are at the same time very much used to eating what results from such butchery. The question would be whether or not the individuals consuming the meat would be comfortable with slaughtering the animal from which it came.
The issue I take with Wallace’s paper is contained within his last couple lines where he says “that it’s probably best to stop the public discussion right here. There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.” Personally I feel that we have discovered the exact opposite of that. Our culture hides the blood and guts of the issue so to speak, and skirts around the edges. I agree that I am a meat eater out of selfishness as Wallace would say, because it is comforting and a food I am used to. However to say that that we should simply end the conversation on the animal rights issue seems like a cop-out to me. I feel like we need to challenge ourselves to find some sort of moral standing on the issue, whether pro-carnivore or against it or somewhere in-between. To not do so is to simply avoid figuring out what we truly believe in, and potentially to continue doing something which we actually feel is wrong.