A. Yes you can show that they are wrong. OK, I didn't write a whole book on the ethics of animal morality 50 years ago (so correct me if I am wrong), but by using a cow an example, let's call the cow Charlene:

A.1. Collecting bull semen from 'father to be' bull
A.2. Inserting fist into anus of 'mother to be' cow
A.3. Impregnating cow with bull semen
A.4. Calf (Charlene) is born and lives out her 'life' in a magical farm where the sun always shines, and winter never greys the green grass
A.5. Charlene turns a year old
A.6. Charlene gets taken to a slaughterhouse (let's just ignore that pesky feedlot to fatten her up) where she is killed and then sent off to the supermarket
A.7. She is then purchased in the supermarket, several times, depending on how many parts she was split into

B. Charlene the cow can live to be up to 15-20 years old. Cows for their meat (or flesh) live to be 2-3 years old before they reach the market weight ( https://sentientmedia.org/how-long-do-cows-live/ ). So her life is reduced from 15 years (let's be pessimistic and say 15 years and assume she didn't get all her B12 from the dirt), down to 3 years. That's only 20% of her life. Imagine a 76 year old being hit by a bus at 15.

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