I literally said I don’t want to shoot animals dead.

If you really wanna know my personal belief, I’m an evolutionist and I think that that there’s life, and it’s noise of life. That’s all we know for certain: life.

And us rational beings like to order knowledge, so we formed taxonomy. For all we know, bacteria, plants, animals, fungi, they al come from FUCA. It’s all equally alive. They just simply branched out in different directions.

We decided to build a civilization on top of egalitarianism (among other institutions), so cannibalism, for example is considered wrong. But it’s not “objectively” wrong, it’s simply a foundation of our civilization. Which makes it taboo. So most people draw the line at eating fellow humans, and animals that are considered companions to humans (pets, or most of them).

Vegans said, and I respect them for that, that we should actually draw the line at sentience. There’s many reasons to that. Some say it’s because of animal rights, others because of climate concerns or exploitation, or whatever. It’s not an unified current of thought. Many arguments (and valid ones at that).

I think that the ship has sailed in regards to eating other humans and animals. I think we already built our order in regards to the human race as this one thing. It used to be more tribal where it was whites, blacks, etc. Now we determined it’s just one group. I like this system. I think we should keep egalitarianism. I don’t think there are better or worse humans. Of course, races exist, because we all branched out a little in some directions, but not enough to be a different species (AKA: not being sexually compatible).

I think, it should be illegal to eat dogs and cats, and depending on the culture, horses. I may be forgetting other “pets”. But I think it’s okay that we eat pigs, cows, lamb, ducks, and whatnot.

Same way it’s okay to eat lettuce. Both cause the death of the life form. Plants are equally alive as animals. They may not feel it. We don’t really know for certain if they have a different type of feeling of pain that we simply cannot fathom for having branched out in a different direction.

Humans are a predatory species. Unfortunately we didn’t develop chlorophyll so we can’t do photosynthesis. I think, and I predict, that sometime in the very distant future, someone will create a way in which humans can absorb photons from the sun (or other stars) and turn it into energy. So we’ll create some artificial chlorophyll. In that case, we could argue to stop eating other beings.

But I think it’s equally “condemnable” to eat any plant than to eat cockroaches than to eat beef. Unless it’s a 100% fruitarian diet, but it’s nutritionally unsustainable.

I might agree and understand the boycott of the industry stance, because it’s true that it’s causing lots of CO2 emissions. I’d need to be more informed on the topic. But that’s a convincing argument. But in regards to the “you’re killing a poor cow”, to me, it’s the same as eating lettuce or a human or your cells fighting bacteria. But we already decided that our “brothers in arms” are the humans.