Everything is alive.
The tragedy,
The cruelty,
The unethicalness,
Is not in the taking of the life for food, but in how it was farmed, how it was treated, how it was killed, whether or not it was given due respect and appreciation.
I mean fucking plants & fungi are conscious in a way that scientists are only starting to wrap their heads around. Some decades down the line if humans are still around they may even trip over the realization plants have a sentience outside our frame of reference.