224 This war of Mine <| sep |> To answer this question , let me make a sort of inane question of my own Is it morally permissible to kill anything for food ? It ' s a silly question , but I think it ' s one that goes well with the question being asked of us . As a more extreme version of being trapped on an island with nothing else but a pig to eat , we ' re all marooned on this planet with nothing but plants and animals to eat so we make do with what we have on this planet . So is it morally permissible because we have no choice ? And in the same vein as the we don ' t need to eat pigs argument , we also don ' t need to eat kale sandwiches . We could all just eat meat . Is it practical ? No , of course not , but the question is not of practicality but of morality . All the video ' s arguments revolve around the value of the pig compared to people . What about the value of the pig compared to the kale we could eat instead ? A value that I would arguably say is subjectivea product of the very genetic makeup that makes us different from pigs or plants , and what I mean by this is that morality would be nonexistent , or at least completely different , if we didn ' t have the chemicals in our brain that make us sympathetic . I think the morality of killing a pig for food depends entirely on the value each individual or culture places on the pig . As I said in a previous comment , morality is subjective . And the morality of what to kill for food depends entirely on the value we place on the life in question . Until we can synthesize food from pure energy , I personally believe it ' s morally permissible to kill pigs for food . What we need to actually consider is the practicality of itthe impact of it on the planet as well as the space they ' re occupying as we move forward .