“Eating a livestock animal”.
Right because the alligator deserved to live but the lowly livestock deserve a live of torture for your gustatory pleasure.
the way i always thought about it "wow these guys are so good at shooting" which is obviously true, but the flipside of it is "these guys are so good at defense" if they can force misses more than half the time
Vegans are in fact extremely aware of this. But when you buy chicken you are encouraging more broiler chickens to be bred into existence and have tortuous lives. So yeah, vegans are right.
Saying "Did you know Republicans freed the slaves and Democrats supported the KKK in the 1800's?" is like saying "Joe Dumars was a really good GM in 2002." It is not relative to the world we currently live in.