Meat tastes good. I want to keep eating it.
(No, obviously eating people is not equivalent on all levels to eating non-human animals. But merely tasting good isn't a very sensible reason to eat something on its own)
For some people, meat is a moral issue that makes the literal holocaust look like a one-off homicide, and must be utterly eliminated. (Personally, given what I believe about the nature of minds, I suspect the moral issue varies by species; but the number of dead is that order of magnitude).
Other people believe it to be a mere personal health issue, which is basically just “you do you, none of my business”.
Other people say the environmental consequences of meat production affect us all, and therefore needs to be minimised: here, if everyone wants it but only the super-rich can afford it, that’s still a win.
If I own a pet chicken and it lays an egg what do I do with it?
Apart from anything else, the idea of a pet chicken is too far from my lived experience to properly imagine.
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