What is inexcusable, I think, is animal agriculture that, without any human need whatsoever, imprisons, tortures, and slaughters on an industrial scale highly conscious beings every bit as emotionally rich and feeling as a dog, by the billions, just because we feel like it, are used to it, or "like the taste." Now, the question of all diets, to say nothing of house-building, causing harm to living beings is a real one. The answer, I think, is to live a life that amply pays back posterity for the harm we inevitably and inescapably cause. I don't think the unavoidable harm means we shouldn't minimize the avoidable harm. Insults ignored.

Because we have to eat to survive and plant based diets cause the least amount of suffering. Yes crop production causes death to rodents and insects but animal farming requires more crop production to feed the animals to then put them in a gas chambers. It’s a far more inefficient use of resources and causes needless suffering on a mass scale.