I'm nice to my crickets though. You don't have to hurt them, you just place them into the freezer and they fall asleep like it's winter time. And then you roast them and mill them into flour. Okay that part does hurt them, but they're asleep. Seems kinda peaceful.

I get that hurting a mammal with complex emotions is very unethical, but where's the limit?

What about fermented food? Tiny bacteria are alive when you eat them. They probably don't feel pain but I can't imagine they're thrilled to meet their doom.

How about mushrooms? They aren't plants, and they apparently communicate with the trees. How do you know they don't possess some kind of sentience?

What about harvesting plants? Everytime you run a combine through a field it's like an insect genocide. Even if you're only eating plants you're still eating insects because they get caught by the harvester and milled into the final product. The FDA allows up to 50 insect parts per 1/4 cup cornmeal.

What about hurting a tree? They're not sentient and cannot feel pain but I still believe it is unethical to harm a tree. Do they not deserve our empathy because they lack our human conception of sentience?

Being a good human is hard. I feel like in principle you're right but I don't know how to exist and not hurt anything ever. You're right, I don't know you. Maybe you're just a better person than I am.

Using logical fallacies in bad faith doesn't make you look good

I am aware that users like you throw around logical fallacy terms in your comment all the time when you feel your being called out

I've observed it on reddit before multiple times

If you can't be nice you should just give up

This is not the space to aggressively attack users

This is not a strawman argument and you know it, your just trying to throw "strawman" in response because you don't like the response you've been given