Eat plants: plants die

Eat animals: animals have to eat a bunch of plants first meaning way more plants die and also animals die

Plants don't have an agent that feels negative or positive feelings. Its stimulus-response system starts and stops at that. Animals on the other hand can experience suffering and pleasure, and and it's morally wrong to inflict the first and deny the second

Would you say that cutting a carrot is equal to cut the throat of a cow?

Plants do not have a central nervous system or a brain so they are not able to feel pain or emotions. Animals can feel, dream, have friends, same as we do. Just not as complex.

Why not?

Probably. It's a shame that meat is so heavily subsidized. Without the subsidies, meat would be far too expensive for normal earners. In my country (Germany), for example, you pay 19% tax on oat milk and 7% on cow's milk. Because cow's milk is considered a staple food...🤡

We slaved colored people for ages. Woman had much less rights back in the days. We lived in caves for decades. Etc.

Just because we have been doing something for a very long time and it is socially accepted does not automatically make it right.