Vegans interest me. To be sure, the meat industry is extremely fucked up, but tons of other industries are too, just toward human laborers rather than animals. The idea that eating meat is cruel intersects oddly with vore fetishism. Predator and prey are not night and day.

The funny thing about vore is that for the most part, eating something that's still alive is deadly for the one who ate the other. Particularly when it comes to certain microbes, a creature eating anything is always gambling that their food doesn't eat them back.

To assert that humans have some kind of moral obligation to only consume plants/fungi is to forget that humans are not apex predators. When a person dies, the very microbes inside them will consume the body if nothing else does (provided the right moisture and temperature).

Dust mites are literally tiny creatures that feed on the skin we shed. When we don't eat our food, fungus does. Hell, even animals that we tend to think of as herbivores will sometimes eat meat if they find it freshly killed. All living things are food for something else.

The Maasai live mostly on the blood, milk, and meat of their livestock. Some would argue this is cruel, but can you imagine having your diet depend so strongly on another creature (one that you must care for), and not feeling any sense of affection for it? I can't.

One fun thing about this fetish is the mixture of both loving a person and wanting to eat them. Keeping livestock humanely essentially consists of keeping pets, except you eat them and/or harvest something from them. Most people wouldn't argue keeping pets is cruel. Most.

Consider the question of consent. A breastfeeding baby has its mother's consent. Not all animals offer humans nourishment per se, but when humanely kept, some will stick with us simply because we can provide them with safety and even happiness. Is that not a form of consent?

At some point, I hope to keep chickens myself. I don't think I've ever deliberately killed a vertebrate before, but I want to know what it means for the taste of meat to be a luxury acquired only by killing with my own hand, or the hand of someone I know has a similar attitude.

Part of the appeal of vore is sometimes the idea of being safe inside a stronger creature, and I thought that was a weird way of looking at it for a while, but now I get it. To consume a thing, you have to keep it safe, right up to the moment where you don't.