Last week, in a video interview with Elle magazine, the pop star Billie Eilish was asked the following question: “What’s one hill you’d die on?”

“Y’all not gonna like me for this one,” Eilish said . “Eating meat is inherently wrong.”

She then added that it’s hypocritical to say you love all animals but also eat meat: “Sorry — you can eat meat, go for it, you can love animals, but you can’t do both.”

Whatever you might think about Eilish, her statement could be taught in an intro to logic class. You can say you love some species, like cats and dogs, while eating other species, like chickens and pigs. But you can’t say you love all animals if you also eat some . And boy, do Americans eat animals: about 37 individual animals each year . (If you include shrimp, which you probably should , the number balloons to 174.) And even before they’re killed, 99 percent of those animals are raised in truly horrific conditions .

Nonetheless, Eilish wasn’t wrong that y’all are not gonna like her for this one.…