The most recent USA poll in 2018 found that about 5% of Americans identified as vegetarian. I'd wager a very large number of the 95% of meat eaters also love animals.

That a couple hundred million sociopaths just here in Merica!
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Me: *logical statement*

Chula: *monkey noises*

Dude, you want black and white.
EAT MEAT = LACKS EMPATHY TOWARDS ANIMALS

Not the way it is in the real world for many - deal with it instead of trying to dump it in my lap.

This is pure bull. You think every vet is a veggie? You think every animal lover recoils from meat? You're trying to make the issue black and white and it's not. It's completely disinegenuous to say that if you eat meat you value animal life less. There could be a zillion veggies and animals would still get hunted and killed for meat, because no way will the world ever be totally veg, and once there are people who want to eat meat there's an industry to supply that demand. Being a veggie doesn't save animals; it just means you don't have to feel you have to take responsibility for their deaths.

And there are shades of nuance. I eat chicken but I'd never eat dog or cat. I can't say I love chickens or that I don't feel momentary sadness if I look at a chicken burger or sausage and remember it was once an animal, but I'll be damned if I'm going veg. I hate veg. That does not make me less of a valuer of animal life than a veggie. A lot of them also eschew meat for health reasons, not moral ones.

It makes me so warm and tingly inside when we fully agree on something!

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Yes.

You have a very uncomfortable point.

Here's one for you to explain to me.

Why is it that in America the most pro-life/anti-abortion states are also the leaders in capital punishment?

Why did you quote him out of context?

Just to get his attention.