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Meat eating ethical?
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RE: Meat eating ethical?
(May 28, 2014 at 4:14 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: Anyone here know of good arguments against the notion that eating animals is unethical? Why exactly is it ok to cage a cow its whole life, slaughter it, and then eat it but it's not ok to cage a human its whole life, slaughter it, and eat it? What exactly is the difference that makes the former ethical but the latter unethical?

If your only argument is "Duhhhh cow tasty!" then please leave. Serious arguments only please.

There is no good argument for the insipid position that it's ethical to eat meat, other than it feeds lots of people. However, that need for meat can be fixed someday with technology, so the question of ethics is not solved. The tasty argument is sadly your best card other than the need for meat to feed people argument, which is short-sighted anyway. The fact of that matter is, it is unethical to mass slaughter sentient animals, plenty of animals are capable of higher thought and social cohesion, including the ones we eat like Pigs. A different way to look at it is, it could be us on the menu someday if more advanced beings came and wanted to force feed, mass breed then eat us. Other countries are already starting to give certain animals some forms of person-hood. And dogs for example can be given someones inheritance which is sort of implied person-hood already.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
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Meat eating ethical? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 28, 2014 at 4:14 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Duke Guilmon - May 28, 2014 at 4:26 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 28, 2014 at 4:43 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Duke Guilmon - May 28, 2014 at 7:49 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Ravenshire - May 28, 2014 at 10:11 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Heywood - May 28, 2014 at 11:11 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Cato - May 29, 2014 at 11:01 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Heywood - May 29, 2014 at 5:38 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Anomalocaris - May 29, 2014 at 7:31 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 29, 2014 at 9:38 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 28, 2014 at 4:27 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 28, 2014 at 5:50 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by vorlon13 - May 28, 2014 at 5:53 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 28, 2014 at 5:56 pm
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 28, 2014 at 6:08 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by MJ the Skeptical - May 28, 2014 at 6:35 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by BlackSwordsman - May 28, 2014 at 6:38 pm
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 28, 2014 at 6:54 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by BlackSwordsman - May 28, 2014 at 7:01 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 28, 2014 at 7:17 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by vorlon13 - May 28, 2014 at 7:22 pm
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 28, 2014 at 8:26 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Lek - May 28, 2014 at 10:15 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Minimalist - May 28, 2014 at 10:38 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by pocaracas - May 29, 2014 at 5:48 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by vorlon13 - May 28, 2014 at 10:24 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 29, 2014 at 10:55 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Mister Agenda - May 29, 2014 at 11:08 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by No_God - May 29, 2014 at 11:21 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 29, 2014 at 11:34 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by vodkafan - May 29, 2014 at 11:37 am
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 29, 2014 at 11:39 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by vodkafan - May 29, 2014 at 1:06 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Mister Agenda - May 29, 2014 at 11:55 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Duke Guilmon - May 29, 2014 at 5:15 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by rexbeccarox - May 29, 2014 at 6:55 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Duke Guilmon - June 1, 2014 at 9:11 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Marsellus Wallace - May 29, 2014 at 12:04 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by No_God - May 29, 2014 at 12:14 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by LastPoet - May 29, 2014 at 12:14 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by pocaracas - May 29, 2014 at 12:17 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by max-greece - May 29, 2014 at 12:26 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 29, 2014 at 12:31 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Anomalocaris - May 29, 2014 at 1:20 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 29, 2014 at 1:51 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by rexbeccarox - May 29, 2014 at 3:05 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 29, 2014 at 5:19 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by BlackSwordsman - May 29, 2014 at 6:48 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Anomalocaris - May 29, 2014 at 3:18 pm
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 29, 2014 at 1:44 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Confused Ape - May 29, 2014 at 4:10 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by paulpablo - May 29, 2014 at 5:02 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Losty - May 29, 2014 at 5:06 pm
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 29, 2014 at 6:27 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 29, 2014 at 7:45 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Angrboda - May 29, 2014 at 8:17 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Heywood - May 29, 2014 at 10:43 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by vodkafan - May 30, 2014 at 10:18 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Confused Ape - May 30, 2014 at 4:18 am
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 29, 2014 at 10:21 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 29, 2014 at 10:37 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Silver - May 29, 2014 at 11:05 pm
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 29, 2014 at 10:58 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Fidel_Castronaut - May 30, 2014 at 7:56 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by pocaracas - May 30, 2014 at 8:05 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Fidel_Castronaut - May 30, 2014 at 8:06 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by pocaracas - May 30, 2014 at 8:15 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Fidel_Castronaut - May 30, 2014 at 8:52 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by pocaracas - May 30, 2014 at 9:32 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Fidel_Castronaut - May 30, 2014 at 10:16 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 30, 2014 at 11:21 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Angrboda - May 30, 2014 at 1:09 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Zen Badger - May 31, 2014 at 1:54 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Autumnlicious - May 31, 2014 at 2:15 pm
Re: RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - May 31, 2014 at 7:19 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Zen Badger - May 31, 2014 at 8:06 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - May 31, 2014 at 8:32 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Zen Badger - May 31, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Jackalope - May 31, 2014 at 10:23 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Confused Ape - June 1, 2014 at 5:22 am
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by The Grand Nudger - May 31, 2014 at 7:29 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by Minimalist - June 26, 2014 at 3:00 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by IAmTheeWallrus - June 26, 2014 at 3:55 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by ManMachine - June 26, 2014 at 4:06 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by KUSA - June 26, 2014 at 4:48 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by MJ the Skeptical - June 26, 2014 at 5:53 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by fr0d0 - June 26, 2014 at 6:08 pm
RE: Meat eating ethical? - by bennyboy - June 26, 2014 at 9:54 pm

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