(January 23, 2014 at 6:18 pm)FlyingNarwhal Wrote:(January 23, 2014 at 6:09 pm)jg2014 Wrote: No I would not eat it. Eating meat is bad for ones health
Would it be morally wrong to eat this animal this animal though?
Well the difficulty with that question concerns the link between things that make us unhealthy and ethics. For me as I don't find eating meat palatable, it would be wrong to eat it. For some one who enjoys meat, they would have balance that enjoyment against the increased chance of cardiovascular disease etc and negative effects on society of that increased burden of ill health. A difficult balance. Its similar to asking if it is wrong to smoke. Its a difficult one, but I would lean on the side of it being marginally wrong, but perhaps the best of all likely outcomes.
All this is assuming that we could grow the meat without harming the original source animal and that meat eating behaviour does not negatively affect people's wider perception of animal's (which it certainly does currently when people devalue animals cognitive abilities when their meat eating us threatened)
