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You keep saying this, but by the same logic you don't eat vegetables, just vegetable corpses, because they cease to be vegetables as soon as you kill them.

You are, of course, talking bollocks. Dead animals are still animals.

Er, no. Plants are alive but not, in a philosophical sense, living. When an animal dies, it continues to live through the same micro-processes that plants do, but no-one would say it is still living.

The substance of an animal is its life. Beyond that it is mere material.