We can reason about what we do and make conscious choices about our diet. I don't believe other animals can. That power gives us a special responsibility. We a

We can reason about what we do and make conscious choices about our diet. I don't believe other animals can. That power gives us a special responsibility. We are also omnivores that don't need to eat meat to survive. Maybe for instance dolphins can also reason about what they do, I don't know. But their biology gives them less choice. Also humans now eat so much meat that the mammals we breed for food are 15 times as much biomass as all wild mammals combined. It's almost irrelevant what other mammals do, there are so few of them. Even so, it's a personal choice. It happens that I made a choice to be vegetarian, but that was only five weeks ago... Other people make their choice. But it's different from the case of other animals killing for food.