Lumifer comments on Why Eat Less Meat? - LessWrong
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I freely admit that animals can and do feel pain. "Suffer" is a complicated word and it's possible to debate whether it can properly be applied only to humans or not only. However for simplicity's sake I'll stipulate that animals can suffer.
Now, a "morally relevant way" is a much more iffy proposition. It depends on your morality which is not a matter of facts or evidence. In some moral systems animal suffering would be "morally relevant", in others it would not be. No evidence would be capable of changing that.