RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?
November 29, 2017 at 7:46 am
(November 29, 2017 at 7:40 am)Brian37 Wrote:(November 29, 2017 at 4:47 am)Alexmahone Wrote: I'm an atheist and a non-vegetarian but I can clearly see that raising and slaughtering animals for food is immoral. This is partly because of the appalling conditions under which most of these animals are raised and the fact that we are killing them for our benefit.
Do religious folks agree? If not, how do they ethically defend non-vegetarianism?
Farming animals is worldwide. Could our species do a better job? Sure, but don't look for that to end though.
I think (hope) that the treatment of farmed animals will get a lot better down the road. Maybe 500 years from now humanity will look back at the way we treated animals the same way we look back on slavery - that its atrocious and we cant understand how society ever allowed it. Or better yet, maybe we will find a way to make synthetic meats so we won't have to kill animals at all anymore.
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