Steak

[Whateverist]

This conversation has raised some issues that I've never been able to fully get out of.

1. Why is it less immoral (or not immoral at all) to kill an animal than a human for food?

I've never felt compelled to seek a justification. It is only from the point of view that sees us as rational beings that the idea even comes up. Vegetables are alive when we rip them out of the ground but that doesn't deter me either. It is important to remember that we are animals ourselves and therefore part of the dance of eating and being eaten. (Unfortunately, at the age most of us intend to live to and given our diets our bodies are not especially appealing or wholesome as food for most creatures. Meh.)