RE: are vegetarians more ethical by not eating meat?
May 16, 2013 at 8:46 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2013 at 8:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think you've spent much time looking into this issue if you think that vegetarianism is less harmful on the environment, or that eating meat has anything to do - with anything more or less- than feeding ourselves.
I think that what's probably happened here - is that you've made generous allowance for connecting things like abusive (in the environmental sense) and unregulated battery farming with an omnivorous diet - as though the one does not or could not exist without the other (and just maybe, ignoring that even in the face of battery farming people do still starve to death with regularity) - while simultaneously whitewashing the very salient observation that of the vast swath of things -we do- on this rock, agriculture probably has the best chance of "destroying the environment"- all for some greens and beans.
No matter what you decide to eat, your hands are bloody. There's a saying about glass houses and stones, it applies.
I think that what's probably happened here - is that you've made generous allowance for connecting things like abusive (in the environmental sense) and unregulated battery farming with an omnivorous diet - as though the one does not or could not exist without the other (and just maybe, ignoring that even in the face of battery farming people do still starve to death with regularity) - while simultaneously whitewashing the very salient observation that of the vast swath of things -we do- on this rock, agriculture probably has the best chance of "destroying the environment"- all for some greens and beans.
No matter what you decide to eat, your hands are bloody. There's a saying about glass houses and stones, it applies.
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