intellegent, you wrote:
“Do you really believe that Hashem would specifically allow us to eat animals but would prefer that we dont?! Do you think that Hashem CH”V does not have the strength to tell us not to do something that He’d prefer we don’t???”
Yes, I believe that Hashem would allow someone to do something even if it would be better for him not to do it, not because Hashem is in any way lacking C”V but because He is well aware that people are. One example is found in Sefer D’Vorim, the inyan of Eishes Y’fas To’ar, in which a man is permitted to marry a captive. The m’forshim explain that this is allowed even though it is not considered the right thing to do, because otherwise the person might marry the captive anyways, so the procedure outlined in the Torah describes how to go about it in the “best” way possible.
Now I don’t know if eating meat falls into this category of something we are allowed to do but really shouldn’t, but I did want to address your point.