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Not the original commenter, but wanted to add some rebuttal to a few of those claims
In terms of health
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27886704/
In terms of costs
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study
In terms of issues with crop production
Those end up being reduced due to the lesser need to grow crops. Is it perfect, no, but does it end up substantially ahead, yes
So for instance terms of pesticides, the usage still ends up lower due to a lesser need to grow feed crops
(emphasis mine)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25374332/
More broadly
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/htm
This is because
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211912416300013
There are people, whose whole job, and primary source of income is being vegan and talking about being vegan, and many of those people complain about the health problems they have, despite of all the effort they've put into it. So no.
So murder of things is fine, then? You we'ren't complaining about the amount of meat people were eating , you were complaining that people eat meat at all.
And again, you didn't answer the most important part, what about the human pain and suffering your lifestyle causes?