Is meat-eating morally wrong?

[kanageddaamen]

You seem to be indicating that the presence of a central nervous system or absence of a cell wall disqualifies a living thing of being food for humans.

Fear and pain are natural defense mechanisms present to help a species survive and thrive. It does not make it wrong to eat them. Plants are living things too. I do not see how, because a cow can feel pain, it makes it a species that should get special treatment when a carrot does not.

We do not eat things like dogs and cats because we have a pet-master bond with these species and we personalize the action due to our experiences. Very few people have had a pet cow or pet pig, and those who have generally do not eat those animals for the very reason.

Our teeth structure alone suggest an omnivorous diet. We were never "meant" to eat any kind of food, we are "equipped" to be omnivorous.

All animal life depends on the death of some other life for survival. I could easily make the argument "I don't eat plants because I think it is morally wrong to eat a living thing that has no natural defense mechanism"