Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[Angrboda]

And again you've yet to give a reason for your moral claim. That the "trend" has been to extend protection to an ever wider net is an appeal to tradition, and is thus another non sequitur.

The reason is that animals suffer, and that the willingness to accept limitations on one's own behavior to prevent suffering in others is one of the most sensible bases for a moral system. This is my reason: that it is wrong to knowingly inflict suffering on those who do not inflict suffering on you.

Why? Why is it wrong to inflict suffering on food animals? You haven't given a reason, you've just declared it so. And the generality of the formulation you've given makes all forms of punishment essentially immoral, as well as a host of other absurd consequences.

Reasoning from evolutionary psychology makes it within our self-interest to ignore the suffering of animals. I say self-interest is a more reasonable foundation for ethics than your bald declaration.

But since you're the one, in this context, claiming that the suffering of animals should have moral value, it's your burden to demonstrate this.

You haven't even come close. All you've done is declare, "Animal suffering. Oog. Icky. Me not like, therefore bad." You're a non-cognitivist's dream.