I'm not defending eating meat here. All I'm saying is you might want to broaden your own horizons as to why people eat it.

To pretend things like taste don't exist makes your argument disingenuous and makes anyone likely to dismiss your arguments right away.

If you're going to boil it down so simply, there are cruelty free sources of meat, and since you choose to ignore that and your only argument is cruelty... I'm just going to ignore everything else you say, because the one area I do understand, I understand you're making stuff up about.

HN hivemind is triggered! Thanks for spreading awareness (I'm vegan btw)

This isn't spreading awareness, this is how you make people sick of your cause. This is like the angry preacher who goes down to college campuses and yells that sex is the devil. After enough missing-the-point, anyone not on your side gives up listening or actively assumes anything else you say is also missing the point.