In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

If a person feels compassion for cows, but not for sardines, on which side of your simple either/or equation would they fit?

I prefer not to measure each person's compassion in a game of "who's the purest of us all."

The 'simple equation' isn't based on any sort of measurement of our compassion.

Rather, it's based on whether we are applying whatever amount of compassion we are capable of, which entails first making the choice to actually feel compassion, and then doing the best we can, to contribute to animals suffering only to the extent necessary for individual metabolism.

Either we're doing the best we can, or we aren't. Each of us may have a different 'best' and that's ok. What matters is that we each do our best.