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You seem to be saying that if other animals do something, that means it's ok for humans to do. Did I get that right?
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That grass was really just grassified air, sunlight, and soil nutrients. And those soil nutrients were really just nutrientified minerals, which were mineralified space dust, which was space dustified Star, which was starified gas or something, which was gas-or-somethingified Big Bang, which might have been bangified Big Crunch, which was crunchified universe, which was… >

Liking the new Taco Bell menu >

They say the crunchified Big Bang is fire with extra mozzarella on top >

I wouldn't know, I get Starified gas every time I go there >

When you suck a dick, you’re really licking humanified Doritos >

Eh,make mine rare-2 mins each side-if that.S+p and we're good >

… but if it dies in a field without being eaten, it becomes grassified cow. >

More importantly, you're eating an individual that we have no justification to treat as an object >

Depends where you draw the line.  Different people draw the line in different places and are equally justified in doing so.  There is no universal truth, so there can be no objective justification either way.  It's all grounded in every individual's morality. >

I see. Why do you think it's ok to turn an individual into an object? >

Cows are food. Much like animals in the wild kill and eat each other. Is a lion objectifying a gazelle because it chooses to kill and eat it? No, it doesn't do that because it doesn't think that way. It's an animal and it's primal. 
I'd love to see how people like you would have survived back when people had to hunt and gather