&gt; Plants are just as alive as mammals, fish or insects<p>Two things: plants aren&#x27;t sentient and animals also eat plants - many, many times more plants than vegans do. So if you truly regard plant and animal life to be the same, it would behoove you to immediately stop eating animals! It&#x27;s very obvious how this argument falls flat on its face when brought to the light of critical thinking.<p>&gt; how do you justify your greater reliance than meat eaters on migrant underpaid labor?<p>This is just conjecture, but I&#x27;ll try and answer anyway. You can be vegan <i>and</i> care about how workers are treated. Those two things aren&#x27;t mutually exclusive. Personally, I grow most of my food myself, but obviously this isn&#x27;t practical for most people. Why not turn this question around and ask, how are slaughterhouse workers treated and what their experience must be like?<p>&gt; Isnt this just a game of semantic false moral superiority until there is a nutrition source that is completely death and suffering free?<p>Pretty ironic to hear this from someone who beliefs him or herself to be superior to animals, and justifies their destruction. It&#x27;s not a game of semantics - in fact, it&#x27;s not a game at all. Animal agriculture is the <i>leading</i> cause of climate change. You can be coy all you want, but you are actively contributing to the problem by consuming animal products.