I get paid to fight moot points.

I have an opposiable(sp) digit, walk upright, the ability to reason and use tools. That makes us top of the food chain and the digestive capability to be an omnivore.

Everything beyond that is what you want to believe in.

If you believe that eating meat is bad because a sentient creature had to die, then more power to you.

I choose to believe that the same principal applies to the plant kingdom. Those who would eschew my belief are driven by a skewed perception in which the only right answer is one that agrees with their side of the discussion.

I would agree that creatures harvested for substantive consumption do suffer some form of "pain" at the moment there life is ended. I would argue that specimens in the plant kingdom have suffered the same "pain" from being domesticated, driven to grow in a conformative way, and then harvested for consumption.

Who are we to decide and define what is and isn't "alive" and what is and isn't "Sentient".

Don't make me have'ta Troll ya Bro!