I absolutely answered your question fully and honestly and I am disappointed you won't recognize that because it suggests you're not discussing this in good fai

I absolutely answered your question fully and honestly and I am disappointed you won't recognize that because it suggests you're not discussing this in good faith. You asked if my position applies equally to dogs and my exact answer was, and I quote: "So to answer your question, in principle it absolutely applies to dogs..." If I misunderstood your question then you can rephrase it. If your question wasn't about rational and ethical arguments about meat consumption, but instead personal feelings and emotions, then sure I can fully admit I am personally not cool with you going out and killing a dog because the scenario you present comes with a cultural and emotional context that I am predisposed against having been raised in the Western world. If the purpose of your argument was that you're against killing animals for emotional reasons, then I actually respect that and have nothing against you feeling that way and encouraging others who feel the way you do to consume a vegan diet. I think there are numerous benefits to a vegan diet, I just don't think the argument you made that we should choose it primarily on the basis that killing an animal is intrinsically violent in and of itself is a rational argument. It's a perfectly fine emotional and cultural reason to do it, and those are good reasons, but it's not a strong rational reason in so far as the arguments you've presented have not been rational. Finally to answer your question about genetics, here is some further reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/03/30/cornell-study-finds-some-people-may-be-genetically-programmed-to-be-vegetarians/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0... https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-291 https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-291 https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/06/modern-european-genes-may-favor-vegetarianism https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/06/modern-european-gen...