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Matter is matter. Whether you eat inanimate or animate matter is irrelevant. It is inanimate when you eat it, generally. Exotic diets aside.

I eat singluarities and hard candies. Crunching them has deletrious effects. There's a benefit though.

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Ok matter is matter. The question is about ethics though, animals suffered for you to eat certain matter. How do you respond to that? You are (me too) responsible for an animals un-needed suffering.

Also I believe your reasoning is far to simplistic. Morality
comes into play for instance, if someone killed your dog for a stranger to eat him. Would you feel the same way?