The ethics if factory farming

[bennyboy]

Our bodies are set up to digest meat. If you object to the term "designed" fine, but our anatomy is set up for an omnivorous diet. No different from a bear, or a chimp, or racoons. Why then is it wrong for us to eat what is best for us?

Because the most important feature of our humanity is to use understanding and a vision of a better world to transcend our animal nature. We understand what suffering is, and that animals suffer. A better world would be one in which can can arrange nutritious, delicious food without involving ourselves in the unnecessary suffering of others. Refusing to minimize the suffering of others in order to maximize your own pleasure is selfish, and very arguably immoral.

I'm pretty sure you didn't spend 1000 calories stalking, killing, and preparing your Big Mac. I'm pretty sure your family won't die if you don't drag a big deer into the house a couple times a year. The naturalism argument fails because we don't live naturally in any aspect of our lives-- except when we want a fallback moral argument.