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How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?

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RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?

November 29, 2017 at 7:20 pm

(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.

Your confidence in your opinion of the morals of the matter is decidedly misplaced. You're welcome to have an opinion, but representing it as an objective fact is stupid. I'm a meat eater and proud of it. In my opinion, morals, the human science of right and wrong, only applies to actions which affect other humans. To suggest that there is something immoral by causing suffering in non-human animals is in my opinion a mistaken understanding of morality. It might be argued that there is some moral significance to eliminating gratuitous suffering of food animals, but that, if so, would be a secondary matter. As far as I can see, the only practical implication it has is in helping us preserve an image of ourselves which is invested in being an animal samaritan, and possible ecological repercussions. Beyond that, fuck 'em; they're food.

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How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food? - by Alexmahone - November 29, 2017 at 4:47 am

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