There aren't as many hungry kids as there used to be. There aren't as many hungry adults, either, for that matter. Global hunger is declining.

I am rather more worried about hungry kids than dead cows.

I also don't care if people can subsist solely on vegetables; subsistence is not our aim -- we can live in appalling conditions, but we got out of those circumstances deliberately. It took a great deal of time and hard work in miserable environments to do so.

That's why there's so much meat now, we were tired of being hungry and we built a better world.

We have build such a peaceful, prosperous world now that large numbers of people are worried about the emotional state of our meat. They're not worried about hunger or violence or poverty because, for enormous numbers of people, those issues are gone. So now we worry about chicken burritos.

We have also learned quite a bit about animals and their capacity to suffer.

Sorry to break it to you, but humans just aren't that special.