RE: Meat eating ethical?
May 29, 2014 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2014 at 5:20 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(May 29, 2014 at 3:05 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(May 29, 2014 at 1:51 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: There's also the issue of consent. Euthanasia is thought to be acceptable if the person to be euthanized gives consent. Animals can't give consent. This is why bestiality is immoral. The animal can't give consent to have sex with one of us.
Did I make the wrong choice by putting my cat down, then, when her tongue was bulging out of her mouth, and her belly was so distended she couldn't walk due to an infection? I mean, she couldn't voice consent...
No, I think in such cases you could assume that the animal would prefer to die quickly.
But that case isn't like what you have with animals being killed for food. What you have in the case of meat production is preemptive euthanasia. You don't kill a young healthy adult human under the excuse that "if they'd live to old age, they would likely die horribly of cancer or whatnot." So, why do so with animals?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
