My Argument for Meat:
1) As has already been noted, the only way to determine if something experiences pain is the response it has; if it struggles or tries to prevent damage then it can be called pain. Humans and animals experience pain by these standards, as well as plants. Obviously we are going to have to kill and cause pain to something or we will starve.
2) Everything alive feels pain, and some of it has to die for us to live. What is it going to be? Choosing randomly would be a method of last resort, and would result in waste (and today we choose... sea cucumber. Everyone grab a bowl!). This brings us to a good method of deciding what we should eat: Is it tasty/efficient/otherwise good to eat? Obviously we should pick stuff that we can grow/raise well, and like to eat rather than something that is difficult to get and nasty when we do. We should note that we are not judging the pain of these groups to be more or less than any other.
3) Different people can have different ideas on balancing the killing with their enjoyment/gain. When you really think about it, eating algea and eating meat do not differ in numbers all that much.
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