I believe that most artificial meat consumers would argue that it's impossible to kill and eat animals ethically. After all that's why they choose to eat the more expensive artificial meat instead of the real deal or no meat at all.
I’d be very interested to hear how you use your axioms to argue the opposite. I’m happy to share mine but don’t want to taint your thought process before you’ve had time to fully consider the problem.
Have you ever seen how many foals are chewed up in a combine?
IMO much more ethical to directly kill an animal vs. indirectly destroy its habitat or kill it accidentally (and then fail to use the carcass).
I know we must engage in good faith but the soy scaremongering sure does seem coordinated.
I'm going with zero.
Where do you live that stray horses or donkeys are roaming into crop fields at harvest time?
But I think intent makes a difference.
Mice killed by farm equipment are accidental side effects with some ethical implications which most of us choose ignore.
Livestock raised for slaughter is a different ethical question entirely.
(Meat eater here. I do find it to be the natural order of things, but I am aware that I could justify slavery and sexual exploitation by the same logic, and that makes me pretty sure I'm giving myself a pass on the meat thing.)
I eat meat, too. I'm... mostly okay with that. But I'm told that pigs are smarter than cats, and that makes me a bit squeamish. Natural order sure is a slippery slope. It is human nature, I hope, to aim to be better than our nature.
Thank goodness for that!