>>705068
>Don't equate animal life with human life again, please. Humans have souls, animals do not.
Animals have simple animal souls, whatever life giving principle is animating them and allowing them to be aware, they have something. They don't have to be exactly like humans to have a moral status.
>Animals are meat robots that exist for our use.
So why the need to be humane to them "with as little pain as possible" if they are just empty robots? >>705056
You're being inconsistent. I don't need to be "humane" or "moral" to a robot, it's not a living, conscious being. I do have to be humane and moral towards animals, because I recognize they are living and conscious beings, like myself, but not in the same degree or power.
>>705072
> That said, animals do not have souls and killing animals to eat is not immoral
Whatever animals have is sufficient to warrant treating them well. Just because they are not equal to us doesn't mean they are worthless and should be sacrificed for our gluttony pleasure.
I'm all for hunting animals in times of scarcity or necessity, since they are not our equals ontologically. But they do have value, enough value to trump a persons "taste pleasure" criteria. Since 99% of meat eaten these days is not out of necessity, but out of taste pleasure, as a luxury.