I eat meat! No meat shame from me. You got the biggest thing I was going for here. I also needed this bit to introduce how they were talking about their own diverse backgrounds and appreciation for foreign travel/food, which was really striking given the circumstances.
All that being said, I also thought it was revealing that the ICE agent couldn’t even conceptualize why someone wouldn’t eat living things. I eat meat but I think most of us who do can acknowledge the ethical arguments against it.