answering eating meat

[Advocate]

The reason to not eat meat is, are we interrupting them? Do they care that their life is cut short? Eating them isn't an issue, they're not there to care. How we treat then when they're alive is a separate question.

[Veritas Aequitas]

The reason to not eat meat is, are we interrupting them? Do they care that their life is cut short? Eating them isn't an issue, they're not there to care. How we treat then when they're alive is a separate question.

There was no concept of morality & ethics as-it-is before the human species emerged. Living Non-humans animals will instinctively kill whatever for their food and whatever is a threat [real or perceived] to their survival. Supposedly "violence", "rapes" and other "evil" acts done by animals are non-moral issues.

Morality and Ethics must be confined specifically to the human species but only with extension to living non-humans where there is an impact on the human species.
Humans do not kill pets because humans has a positive interest to them.
Humans also do not kill other non-sentients beings where they have an indirect positive impact on the environment that humans relied upon.
Humans also has in inherent avoidance of cruelty and this is also extended to living non humans to some degrees.

Other than the above, it is not immoral to kill living & sentients non-humans for food or if they are a threat to humanity, e.g. the covid19 virus and the likes.

The contention of whether to eat meat or not is a case of blind or irrational empathy and compassion which is a psychological issue which need to be modulated by the individual[s].

Thus Morality and Ethics must be confined specifically to the human species [with certain exceptions] so to avoid the issue of whether one can eat meat or not?