But how is eating animals any different from eating humans? I'm completely serious here. Murder charges aside (because murder is only murder if you're murdering a human, of course), let's use the udsuna's argument: I find a fully grown adult who is less intelligent than me, and if I eat him it is justified because his intellect will never compare to my own thus he is not going to benefit society as much as I will. I can also use the only argument you guys have to justify eating meat; people taste good! I'm selfish and I want my transient wants satisfied at the cost of other's lives!

Mike, torturing animals is wrong because they experience pain. I condone your torturing of plants.