Animals receive and give very little mercy or kindness in nature. In fact, nature is capable of stunning brutality - eg newly "crowned" male lions kill off the

Animals receive and give very little mercy or kindness in nature. In fact, nature is capable of stunning brutality - eg newly "crowned" male lions kill off the cubs of the old male. Humans have a capacity of reasoning about their actions, which places a certain responsibility on us to do better than nature. But where do you draw the line? Ultimately we shouldn't eat animals at all - we should eat lab grown meat. But lab grown meat is still far away. So what do we do in the mean time? Ban all meat consumption? Is that even realistic?