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I believe you - for as long as you are typing at a keyboard. Once we put it to the test and you are forced out into a field with a knife and blood pouring down your arm your 'comfort' would become far more measurable.
Really? I would have gone the opposite way - utilitarianism seems to tell me that if cows have nonzero value then a certain number of them must add up to one human, but I have much stronger mental conditioning against killing humans than cows.
Even as a vegetarian, if I was forced to kill some arbitrarily large number of cows or a single human, I'd probably find a way to rationalize the cows as non-people pretty quickly. Mostly, I'd get sick of having to do the manual labor of killing them all by hand, if that's the route we're going.