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The thrust of my reply to these questions is that we don't need to have fully general answers to them in order to be pretty sure -- i.e., sure enough to stop doing it -- that killing animals and eating them is wrong. All you need to know is that (a) you and your fellow humans experience the thing we call pain, (b) that it is wrong to cause other humans needless pain, and (c) that other animals are not sufficiently neurologically different from humans that you can be sure that killing them doesn't cause them the same pain that it would be wrong to cause a human.
What's the "same pain"? The same degree of pain? The same type? I think this might be a sticking point in your argument, along with the one wedrifrid has pointed out (unless it turns out that the answer to my question also clears up wedrifid's objection).