Is eating meat unethical?
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It's not a secret at all that nearly everywhere in the world, animals are mistreated in farms and factories. Animal processing factories don’t exist everywhere in the world and it is not self-evident that farms mistreat their animals. Sure; it was essential 100,000 years ago It was essential almost everywhere as recently as 100 years ago. It is still essential for a lot of people in the world. The reason that eating meat is ethical is because not eating meat is a luxury. The notion that eating meat is unethical is an ethnocentric one based on the availability of alternatives provided by globalization and capitalism and the assumption that everyone enjoys the products of modern western circumstances. When people want to stop eating meat but eat fish, it is not based on reason, but emotion derived from the relative evolutionary closeness we have to mammals (which are easily anthropomorphized) as opposed fish. Omnivorous species such as homo sapiens eat both meat and other things. Its neither automatically unethical nor automatically ethical, it depends on the situation. For examples: Killing a rare species of intelligent animal just so you can eat it is probably unethical. But finding a freshly dead example of the same may not be since then you're just making the best out of an already irreversible situation. Killing and eating a random wild animal is probably unethical, but killing one with a hunting license issued because the species needs culled to avoid overpopulation woes is probably not. Slaughtering farm animals in cruel and unusual ways is probably unethical, but killing something domesticated for thousands of years and doing it in what is considered by society to be the quickest and most human way to do it is probably not. And then finally, I want to point out the hyocrisy of advocating eating fish and eggs but spurning meat. Why does a species get a pass just because it doesn't live in the water? Why is it OK to eat the egg but not the chicken born from the egg? 1
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It's ethical to shoot a monkey in the face and eat it's brains if it throws poop at you. It is ethical to eat a dead horse on the side of the road. It is ethical to eating the grass fed cow liver. It is ethical to eat a human if they are Hitler or Donald Trump It are being eithicael to eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa It's unethical to eat meat from factory farms, who rip out the feathers and cut off the beaks of chickens, feed the animals on unnatural diets, keep them in small enclosures etc. It’s remarkable really the concerns of people about the ethics of meat eating while they tap their thoughts on the matter up on an I pad or computer made by a half starved wretch in an impoverished third world country , also the jacket , shoes and belt they wear no doubt comes from the beast they think it ethically wrong to devour .......pass the barbecue sauce please |
