Ethics of Meat Consumption

I don't think they were suggesting that. More something along the lines of "you're likely to be killing animals either way, so just accept that nature is cruel and don't feel guilty about it".There's a wide spectrum of how much you're willing to do to avoid causing suffering:- Nothing, eat meat from the worst factory farms without second thought- Only eat meat from local, ethical, sustainable, etc farmers.- Only eat meat you have personally killed i

That's like eating meat while being morally opposed to killing animals.

What if I like meat but don’t want to be responsible for animal suffering?

"eating less meat" != "sacrifice them"

>> Meat tastes good, I'm not gonna lie. I just don't wanna kill animalsThis is very common. A lot of people just keep that part of the meat industry out of sight, out of mind. I'm not sure which is worse, ignoring the killing or accepting we are omnivores and making substitute foods.Imagine Hanibal crafting some very convincing plant based fake people :-) I'm not sure that's an argument for or against...

Consider that vast majority of people are eating meat. They harm (or somebody else harms for them) animals literally every day. Just like a lot of other living beings on the planet. Maybe cognitive dissonance is the norm? Or harming someone for your own survival is not automatically a bad thing?

Some people don't want to eat meat for ethical reasons, others because they think it's bizarre. Would you eat a dog, a horse, or another human if you didn't have to worry about the conditions of it's death? Probably not. Many vegans and vegetarians feel the same way about chickens, cows and pigs.

It's so sad that even now people misunderstand the concerns of most people advocating reducing (or eliminating) meat from everyone's diet.In the grand scheme of things, "being eaten" (that is getting killed prematurely) isn't as great a problem as the severe abuse animals undergo before they are killed. If there was a choice to make, I'd rather never exist, than to be brought into existence on a factory farm, confined, abused, rape-inseminated, have my children b

Yes, in case your comment weren't a joke: animals not being slaughtered is quite an important reason. I eat meat but I'd me much happier to eat less cruel meat

I eat meat, but I think it's fair to say bringing living/feeling/thinking things into existence for the express purpose of being killed and consumed is grim. This feels particularly true if the circumstances they're raised in are horrific, which seems to be pretty common in factory farms.In any case, nature might be crueler to living things than we are, but I still think becoming less cruel is worth the effort.