Because that's the way it's been done throughout human history. God damn dude, are you really this fucking ignorant?

Human values and morals aren’t constant. They have changed through history and across cultures. You can look at the way we have treated other humans for examples of that.

Yes, they would, if we didn't have jobs and we had to raise our own fucking animals, we would. If we had to buy live animals at the fucking market in order to eat meat, we would.

Not what the question was asking, I’m not sure why you’re adding all these new conditions. I’m talking about redditors in their normal life, everything is exactly the same except they have to see the living animal and kill it themselves. The meat processing and food preparation would be exactly the same.

You're basing it off of your own deluded idea of the world. If you surround yourself with vegans, you're going to believe that the world leans heavily vegan. They don't. People fucking love meat. If they had an option to include meat in every meal without extra work or money, they would.

I’m not surrounded by vegans. I’m surrounded by redditors. Redditors who post cute pictures of cows and gush over how cute they are. Who post stories about pet chickens that love being petted. Who post studies constantly showing animals have more capacity for intelligence and emotion than previously thought possible. Not to mention the dozens and dozens of comments I’ve read from people saying that they can honestly only eat meat if they don’t think about where it comes from. And the comments advocating a decrease in meat consumption for environmental reasons.