We need an objective discussion on this topic and seems like this is one of the best places to do it.

Point 1: Objective argument
Looking at this from an animal cruelty’s perspective and considering objective arguments, food choices must be made solely depending on the level of development of the nervous system of the food choice. If we want to stop hurting the animals while we eat/use them, we must first measure the amount of pain it can feel while we consume them.

Thoughts?

Point 2: Implementation
Food choices and respective taste are all learned behavior, in the sense that it depends on the type of food you have relied on when you were brought up. If point 1 makes sense, the best way to implement this is by teaching kids from their childhood to make the right (based on point 1) food choices. Just like how many of us do not eat dog meat (only because we were not raised to) but is a common practice in a lot of places. Same goes with other food choices such as snakes, scorpions, cats etc.
Does point 2 take away the right for our young generation to make their respective food choices? Is that more important than the cruelty on animals when we consume them?

Thoughts?

Additional Remarks (for people planning to make these arguments):
1) If I were stranded on some strange island with no plants to eat, I would eat ANYTHING to survive. That’s only if I HAD TO. I would even eat another human being.
2) If our ancestors survived by hunting animals, would it be unnatural for us to stop consuming them? If it is in our culture, then why stop it? Well, so is the concept of God.