Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[James2014]

Cattle have a comfortable life of leisure. So do Australian sheep, even if they are subjected to the "horrible torment of mulesing" - which is really about as painful and distressing as giving a kid an injection. At school there was a kid in my class who had Type 1 Diabetes and I thought it must absolute hell for him to have to jab himself with a needle every single day - but of course now I know that needles mustn't worry him much anymore if he's been doing every day for 14 or whatever years! Or taking your pet to the vet.

This idea that we treat our animals cruelty is wrong. Especially in a country such as ours (Australia), we're a very clean country we have regulation and laws, and we treat our animals vey well.

So in this fairy tale world where; chickens are not debeaked, cows are not forcibly separated from their mothers, and dairy cows do not suffer recurrent udder infections; do you not think it is cruel to deprive animals of the happy lives they live?

Slavery would be wrong even if the slaves lived good lives, their interests are still ultimately regarded as of lesser value to the slave masters interests simply due to characteristics of irrelevant moral consideration, whether that be their birth as a slave or their race. Similarly, when one kills an animal for meat one is disregarding those animals interests for one's own again based characteristics that many vegans consider to be irrelevant in terms of moral consideration, i.e. their species rather than the functional ability of the animal to suffer and feel.