This whole discussion will end nowhere and who gives a fuck, but I don't really see how building cars and brewing alcohol corresponds to taking lives?
I think the point was about the word "licence".
"People who are comfortable with eating meat should be equally comfortable killing animals" doesn't make sense, or at least any more sense than "people who are comfortable driving cars should be equally comfortable arc-welding."
The words that they are looking for are "people who are comfortable eating meat should be equally comfortable with animals being killed".
That said, I approve of the general idea. But in a Hugh Fearnley-Whatshisname / MrSmyth sense, rather than a vegan sense.
I think the point was about the word "licence".
"People who are comfortable with eating meat should be equally comfortable killing animals" doesn't make sense, or at least any more sense than "people who are comfortable driving cars should be equally comfortable arc-welding."
The words that they are looking for are "people who are comfortable eating meat should be equally comfortable with animals being killed".
That said, I approve of the general idea. But in a Hugh Fearnley-Whatshisname / MrSmyth sense, rather than a vegan sense.