I appreciate the answer!

I myself am not a vegan at all, in practice, though I am familiar with … many of the frames that you can look at meat consumption through, and, correctly, imo, conclude that it is a wasteful, destructive, and morally dubious practice… and I do try to minimize my meat intake, but its fairly difficult when I am disabled, don’t have a car, can’t do significant meal prep due to injuries, live off of disability pay alone, can barely afford to get groceries delivered to me, because no local food banks or charities that I qualify for do actual home delivery.

I’ve been moving toward a lot more shelf stable, basic type stuff lately, rice and beans… but also crockpot soups with meat, spam is fairly simple to cook…, so, yeah, I am not a vegan.

But uh, the ‘if it tries to run away’ metric seems to be roughly where I would land on this as well… I guess I would just the line a bit higher than … a clam… I personally would think that… basically most insects (ararchnids are another story)… from what I understand of their neurology… they do not really seem to be capable of suffering…

There's Growing Evidence That Insects Feel Pain, Just Like Us

We have long seen insects as instinctive, mindless creatures with robotic-like reactions to the world and all its impulses.

ScienceAlert (www.sciencealert.com)

Well fuck, I am generally apparently wrong about that.

Thank you, and again the other replier, for spurring me to give this subject more consideration.