>>40611970 (OP)You cannot exist in a material body without killing.
Every motion of your body kills living things. Every step you take kills living things. Every time you wash kills living things.
Even the creatures that live entirely on sunlight chemically kill for defense.
The trick is to minimize killing, not remove it.
>>40612044>Because there are still animals killed to produce plant based food.Sure. Now take all the killing you mentioned, and MULTIPLY it by 40 to get the amount of food necessary to raise food animals, and then ADD the killing of the food animal on top of the pile.
There is no way to pretend that meat eating involves less killing than not meat eating.
>necessary for my existenceSure. And someonee with compassion would recognize and try to minimize it, not try to find loopholes that make them no longer care about the extra death and suffering they are responsible for.