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It's an inefficient form of food, requiring more nutrients than we get out of it. But we like eating meat (it's delicious after all), so in theory it is purely for our enjoyment.
Though we also use it to feed our cats I suppose.
It's also a great way of turning food that grows in soil too poor to plant anything else in that humans can't get any nutrition out of at all, like grass, into food we can