Can't I explain why? On one side, you have animals processed and harvested for food. The problem of needless cruelty in this process exists. On the other side, you have...human suffering. Poverty, war, rape, crime, etc. I believe that the suffering of humans is of an order of magnitude more important than any suffering an animal could go through. I do not agree that each pain is the same. Both have the capacity to feel pain. I doubt an animal knows what cruelty is, only that it is being hurt. An animal does not strive for a free life any more than a tree wants to be in the sun. It would benefit it, but it does not dream of freedom. That sounds like mumbo-jumbo, but it's the only way I can think to put it. I do have a problem with needless pain in the harvesting process, but I think that food production is a need. There is no such reason for the suffering of humans. If I think humans and animals are different, than apparently I am a "speciesist." It is certainly possible to live without consuming animal products, but why bother?