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Is your belief based on an animal's capacity for consciousness? If so do you think all animals, regardless of their intelligence, deserve the right to not be eaten? Where would you draw the line?
Let's look at this from the other direction.
Would you kill and eat a human? How about a monkey or dog? Where do you draw the line for your acceptance of murder?
No I wouldn't. But I would kill and eat an insect, fish, or bird.
Hi there, good question. For me there's no morals tied to the level of consciousness. That allows for cherry picking.
I apply the very simple principe "don't do to other living beings what you would not want to be done to you".
Ok but plants are also living beings so you should not eat them by your rule.
Plants don't have any consciousness at all.
Did you read the comment I replied to?
They're talking about level of consciousness when it's established that the entity in question has any consciousness at all. It doesn't mean considering those with no consciousness, like plants or rocks. (I don't agree with it though, levels are worth considering.)