This kinship has both religious and secular bases. Following a code of universal nonviolence or ahimsa means not killing animals for food and encouraging others peacefully to the same. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism have a strong connection with vegetarianism, but there have been some efforts at a vegetarian lifestyle in a few sects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Fox presents almost the same number of arguments against vegetarianism and then proceeds to demolish them. Creating a completely vegetarian economy would result in economic chaos.
Man is a natural carnivore.
Animals are replaceable. A vegetarian population would be ecologically catastrophic. Humans need to kill to survive. There is no connection between oppression of women and animals. Some indigenous peoples depend upon killed animals to survive.