[tbrownaw]

We don't need to eat other animals to survive.

Why should animals suffer for our pleasure and/or convenience?

Define suffering.

If you raise them in conditions not worse than they'd face in the wild, and kill them in a way that they die quickly (which is far better than they'd face in the wild), what's the problem?

[JoeAltmaier]

There still remains the problem - they were raised for the ethically iffy purpose of being our lunch. E.g. you could make the same argument about 'wild' humans, were we don't try to justify raising, killing and eating them. Of course its different, but how different? That's the issue.

[imgabe]

I don't see any ethical dilemma with feeding yourself. Everything you eat was alive at one time. If it's unethical to eat, why not just kill yourself now? How do you even justify being alive?

[JoeAltmaier]

Silly; you don't have to eat meat. Obviously the point.

[lemming]

and kill them in a way that they die quickly

Come back to us when any form of fishing, especially commercial fishing, is like this.