How do dolphins choose their name?

I see no problem with hunter-gatherers’ predation of wildlife, provided they act in ecological balance with their environment (and they do tend to, out of self-preservation).

That’s not the world the vast majority of us live in though. We kill on the order of 1 trillion animals every year. We’re devastating Earth’s biosphere for the sake of an unnecessary dietary choice.

We’ll reap what we sow, sooner or later.

Lions hunt and eat pretty, they also regularly kill cubs when taking over a pride. Does that make infanticide acceptable?

This argument is at least as silly as the parent's.

Opting out of meat is only really possible for us because of farming. Other species lack the physical capabilities to farm as we do. Nor can they communicate to us the depth of their cognitive capabilities.

Rejecting human exceptionalism is not the same as saying we are indistinguishable from non-human animals (which would be absurd to argue), rather that our distinctions do not make us inherently more worthy.

Wild pollinators are being assaulted by pesticides and by honey bees outcompeting them. This matters because honey bees do not pollinate all the plants we care about.

Whole regions of China have managed to exterminate their pollinator species, such that fruit trees must be pollinated by hand.