Eating meat is actually (Animal suffering) + (Plant suffering) so taking out animal suffering is still reducing the amount of total suffering. Dharmic religion

Eating meat is actually (Animal suffering) + (Plant suffering) so taking out animal suffering is still reducing the amount of total suffering. Dharmic religions have argued this for centuries. The conclusion isn't to eliminate suffering from this world, but to reduce it as much as possible. To have as little of an impact on this world as possible, and to live in harmony with the nature as much as possible. Jains for example can take it to an extreme where they even filter out microbiologic organism by wearing a mask, and use a broom to sweep the ground in front of them so that they remove living organism from their path. Admittedly to me that is an outrageous extreme, but it does make a point nonetheless.