I feel awful about eating octopus, but I’m not veg and I don’t know why I’m more morally sensitive to eating it vs cow. I was once walking through the Tokyo fi

I feel awful about eating octopus, but I’m not veg and I don’t know why I’m more morally sensitive to eating it vs cow. I was once walking through the Tokyo fish market at 5am and marveled at some enormous tentacles hanging out of a bucket. The man smiled and walked over to me and placed a chuck of octopus in my mouth. I remember this as semi-consensual. What was astonishing was that I chewed that chunk for about a half hour before it dissolved and the whole time, every single chew, it tasted fresh (and very delicious). Part of my moral reaction is the knowledge that the octopus tentacle would be still alive in a meaningful way. Sigh.