Hey, plants are living beings too! They feel and communicate and feed, like animals do. So it's not ok to kill animals for food or by-products, but it is ok to kill plants? Says who? Ask any biologist, they'll tell ya: ALL life lives by consuming other living things.

I think cutting down a 200 year old oak tree is far worse than killing and eating and a deer. Like someone on this list already said, lifestyles need only be explained to ourselves.