> You either accept that what you are eating had to suffer when it died, and feel appropriate guilt (or not), or you don't eat any meat at all.
Even if you only eat grains, you are responsible/guilty for mice being run over in the farming process, and then poisoned to defend storage of your grains.
I don't see it as a binary decision, but as a spectrum. You can try to optimise for the least damage to sentient beings, but there's no way to get it 100% right.
(I agree about fish though, nothing special about them that separates them from land animals.)
Even if you only eat grains, you are responsible/guilty for mice being run over in the farming process, and then poisoned to defend storage of your grains. I don't see it as a binary decision, but as a spectrum. You can try to optimise for the least damage to sentient beings, but there's no way to get it 100% right.
(I agree about fish though, nothing special about them that separates them from land animals.)