(January 19, 2014 at 5:46 pm)jg2014 Wrote:(January 19, 2014 at 5:22 pm)Chuck Wrote: 1. Animal can suffer
2. Animal tastes good
3. Making animals suffer to eat them does not adversely effect general welfare of humanity
4. Therefore making animal suffer to eat them is neither right nor wrong on that count
5. But improving the diet of humanity by making their meals palatable enhance general welfare of humanity
6. Therefore making animal suffer to eat them is right on that count.
In order for this to be true you have to add in a whole load of other points eg ethics is only concerned with the welfare of humanity. To which I would reply what gives humanity ethical value is our ability to suffer. Therefore other things that suffer should also be given ethical consideration, and your argument is disproven
Perhaps you need review the concept of proof before you make an idiot of yourself.