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Legality and morality aren't the same thing, unless that's a claim you're making. Is it?
If you don't apply the standard of "nature, tho" universally, then you don't actually believe it to be a complete justification. There's information missing. What's the complete set of conditions I can apply to turn an individual into an object?
Edit: Ah, the old reply-block. I'm sorry to have made this person uncomfortable with questions
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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 >

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? >

Absolutely. Because we share primal areas of the brain. If you wanna be vegan go do your thing but quit acting like we're harming animals and that they have personalities. Survival of the fittest buddy, nature is a cruel beast >

Cool. So when male lions take over a pride, they typically kill and eat the cubs fathered by the males they ousted. Would that make it ok for human stepdads to kill and eat their stepchildren?
Edit: Since I appear to have been blocked, I can't reply to anything on this thread >

Compelling arguement. No, murder of other PEOPLE is frowned upon in our civilization. 
Regardless of what your arguement is it doesn't matter. You made a choice to live life one way and now you're upset at the people who don't share your views. That's the wrong part. Do what makes you happy and let others do what makes them happy. Instead you choose to be hateful and become a part of all these groups telling you how mad you should be. Think for yourself