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Animals are comrades, and just like you and me, don't want to suffer, and actively avoid suffering.

Carnism is a "default" aristocratic-imitation ideology in many countries, meaning that someone agrees with the commodification of animal bodies and the things their bodies can produce, so that humans can profit. Veganism is the ideology which opposes this commodification.

If you see animals as comrades, then carnist production can be seen as a kind of slave economy, where the animals are made to produce products, or consumed directly.

Even from a materialist perspective, carnist production makes zero sense, as it wastes far more land and water, and pollutes far more, than the equivalent land usage for standard agriculture. Any Marxist confronted with these facts would have to either go vegan, or continue living in denial. I have some infographics I can post about this.

Modern carnist production is then essentially aristrocratic imitation, since the majority of every culture's caloric energy comes from regular agriculture.

If you want to see carnist production in the modern day, I suggest watching dominion. If you aren't already a vegan, this should be required, as animals don't have a choice but to live through this.

It's also extremely easy to go vegan nowadays. A decade ago when I turned vegan, I looked up all my favorite meat recipes, and the vegan chef wizards on youtube know how to recreate it almost exactly. I've mad vegan chicken, steak, and others for years, and it's surprisingly easy.