Buddhist ethics is the basis to develop wisdom and mastery over the mind. If there are not of unwholesome Karmic results you cannot collect your mind to develop concentration.
In the above case through you can argue that you indirectly kill, through this is very remote consequence, in buying meat you do not create the type unwholesome roots associated with killing in the mind which results in unpleasant experiences later.
Leaving aside killing, if you take ethics too far then you cannot live. E.g. your food and drinks do have microbes. Antibiotics kill microbes. I have heard once a monk with supernormal powers, after filtering water, saw that there were beings too small to be seen by the naked eye still in the water hence if you are strictly not to harm the you cannot ever eat or drink. The advice received was do not use your Jhanic powers to see if there are microbes in the water.
If you are vegetarian well and good, but if you are not, this is not a hindrance to develop mastery over the mind or wisdom and such action does not have karmic repercussions.
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