Your reponse to humanitarianism is certainly a logical and legitimate way to respect each life and I respect that.

Let's go a little deeper. How do you define respect? Does repect imply zero-killing? Does repect contradicts necessity? For example, is massive pest control by means of pesticides irrespectful?

The way many animals are raised nowdays is certainly irrespectful in my point of view, yet how may one address the issue of "respect" with current culture and the way we live--a world highly influenced by cost efficiency and fast profit?

It's easier to talk the walk, than to walk the talk. Would you have a solution to the conflict of RESPECT(MORALITY) vs CULTURE & NECESSITY?

I think morality (respect) a mere by-product of knowledge and science. Imagine back in prehistoric times when killing is a sheer neccesity, do you think they even knew what is "repect".

The bottom line is this: if we depend on killing to survive having no alternatives, morality does not exist, respect does not exist.

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