Sure. It's pretty common. Still worth pointing out the contradictions, sometimes that's all it takes for people to want to go vegan. Well that or they will go the opposite direction - "if Pokémon can be eaten, that means real animals can be eaten - there's no longer any contradiction, yay".

That's what I thought when I was a kid. We had a rabbit at home, but I would occasionally eat rabbit too... Faced with this apparent contradiction and forced to resolve it, I decided that if I could eat cows, I could also eat rabbits... I guess it's the much easier solution.