How is it any people cannot put themselves in that place with imagining? Even animals could identify with what would not be desirable. Humans should have the sensibility to know they would not want what the animals being used are put through, we can likewise choose to not have anything to do with that, and we can already find out ourselves that there are ways to be very healthy this way without products from animals. And the same amount of use of resources for it and contribution to damage to environments with loss of species does not need to be continued then. https://healthyaging.emory.edu/could-eating-30-plants-a-week-be-the-answer-to-better-health/

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    it assumes that animals and humans sit in the same moral category

    No, just that animals deserve some moral consideration.

    In the case of livestock, many decide that food, culture, convenience, or nutrition justify it.

    Some decide that kicking dogs is a good way to exercise, doesn’t mean it’s a good justification. Especially when there are other options. Same with animal products, there are other options.

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      Sure but I prefer animals. Most of the meat is from hunting or butchering animals myself.

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        Sure, someone’s preference to exercise could be kicking animals. That doesn’t mean it’s a good justification to do so.