The other notable difference is that humans are directly responsible for slaughterhouses, and it's not a nutritional requirement.
We don't lecture lions on any sort of ethics, now do we?
Not yet, but we definitely should!
Doesn't the fact that we can consider such things while lions cannot cement the fact that we have dominion over animals?
Climate change and ecosystem collapse are real, concrete problems that are coming home to roost, and I find it incredibly sad that educated, prosperous people don't do the bare minimum they could to reduce these problems.
Why do you assume things you believe are ‘problems’ are problems to others?
>Around 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to climatic conditions exceeding this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year. By 2100, this percentage is projected to increase to ∼48% under a scenario with drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and ∼74% under a scenario of growing emissions.