>I'm often confused by this as well, it's always been fairly obvious to me that other animals are sentient just like us (why wouldn't they be, their physiology

>I'm often confused by this as well, it's always been fairly obvious to me that other animals are sentient just like us (why wouldn't they be, their physiology is similar, they're descended from common ancestors). Exactly, I'm not sure how anyone who's spent any time around animals could come to a different conclusion. I definitely think people who aren't willing to do the slaughtering themselves have no business eating meat too for that matter. My first ever job was on a meat and fish counter and the amount of people who couldn't stomach seeing a fish get gutted or a steak cut off a sirloin joint because 'it looks too much like an animal' was really shocking. I'm a meat-eater myself, but to deny the inherent violence in a carnivorous diet as those people do is just objectively incorrect in my opinion.