In regards to eating meat

[BrownEye]

2. Higher 2D entities (cows, chickens, dogs, cats, etc.) don't.

I don't think this is accurate. Herds of grazers, flocks of birds, hunting lions -- all exhibit spontaneous changes of direction where the entire group acts as one.

Yes, this is true. This is how a flock of birds will never bump into each other during flight.

Recently I picked up on some sort of message/signal sent by a flock formation. While I consciously noticed that it caught my undivided attention somewhat abnormally, it had the same effect on my wife and children as well. It was like watching the random whimsical flow of consciousness in its flight of fancy. Not just birds in flight.

There is the individual not aware of itself as an "individual". Fairly easy to change this in an animal, very hard to do the same with a plant.

I had brought this up before, a tree is described as being in a permanent state of meditation. I am sure you are aware of those that can separate from extreme sensations, like pain, while in a meditative state.

While keeping this line of thought, do you suppose a tree suddenly comes out of its meditative state fully when changes take place? This is where I find an obvious difference in "suffering" between a plant and an animal. While a lower animal may not suffer as much as a more developed animal, I would say that the sense of suffering is there to allow the directive of self perpetuation and self preservation.

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As soon as the cow in the slaughterhouse smells the blood and fear of the cow ahead of her, she starts freaking out. That is apprehension of the future, not living in the now.

This is true as well.