A few random thoughts, with quotes even though nobody actually said them. Just the ideas.

Except for the first one

So either you starve or you eat and are a monster. No middle ground eh?
Apparently not, as far as I'm concerned. The argument goes that causing things to die, whether animal or plants, is bad and could be argued as such and agreed upon by most people. Causing pain being bad is an iffy statement to make because plants can't (as far as we know) feel pain and braindead people can't feel pain either, so you can see the problems that come along.

As I put it: Something has to die in order for humans to eat. That sounds pretty terrible doesn't it? Of course we don't see it as terrible because if we did we'd all be moral monsters and would decide to starve.

So we say 'middle ground', or other terms to make it okay. I simply refuse to see it that way. Call it dualism or whatever. I just can't justify it.

But yes, I can justify 'if you eat you are evil'. It probably doesn't logically work out. I should try to bring it up in an environmental ethics class...assuming I'll ever take one or go back to school.

People are going to eat meat / KFC / plants / humans anyway
And people are going to do crimes and the like too. Doesn't make it okay.

We're better than animals. Ergo we can eat them
Our moral justifications and argumental basis for arguing that humans have x or y moral right are based upon our ability to be sentient. By the same token animals (and plants to lesser and varying degrees) can be argued to have the same faculties and consequently the same rule applies to them. That's simply the basis of my argument and why the above quote doesn't work.

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Essentially at some point you have to justify killing life in order to eat. How you do that is up to you, but it seems to me that no justification is good enough. Essentially the idea of morality and consistency both work against us in this regard.

So why do I eat animals? I do it because I am immoral and choose to be. You seem to choose to be moral which is fine, but can't get around the idea that life dies so you can live.

So you make it less destructive (I eat animals that aren't tortured) and now it's okay. Fine. I'm not judging you, but I will point out my argument until somebody argues properly against it :)