The whole plant argument is commonly used by meat eaters in denial as some type of catastrophic excuse. "Its all bad man!! No solution to what Im currently doing!" Really irritates me to see such petty denial of their poor virtue.
Using this argument as a justification for eating meat is silly, since meat animals must also eat plants and therefore more plants are consumed per calorie when you eat meat than when you don't. To argue that if plants suffer then eating meat is no worse is to argue that increased suffering is no worse than decreased suffering simply because suffering still exists.
