Childhood indoctrination

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I can't justify exploiting them for entertainment (like zoo's.) If letting living things live happy is preferable, and we can entertain ourselves without locking animals up, then there's no reason to exploit them that way. I also can't justify killing them for clothing. If preserving life is preferable, and we can create clothes from things not alive, then there's no reason to kill them for clothes.

But people like eating them, myself included, so killing them for food is justified. We can nourish ourselves with plants and not animals, but I'd rather not, because my desire to eat meat is stronger than my desire to have animals live.

Morality is subjective. Any given moral of any given person is derived from what that person thinks is ideal/important, and everyone has a different idea of what is ideal/important.

Yes this pretty much sums up my position. Also, animals being used for scientific research gets a big plus from me. I'd be dead without it.