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Default Is Eating Meat Ethical?

ImStillMags wrote:
> On Apr 5, 12:20?am, Tommy Joe > wrote:
>> On Apr 4, 3:12?pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
>>
>> > ?Is eating meat unethical?

>>
>> ? ?Being alive is unethical.
>>
>> TJ

>
> well if you want to take it that far, yes.
>
> The whole point of the opening post is that the majority of people who
> think eating meat is unethical say it is because something has to
> die. Well, sorry, but if we eat ANYTHING at all, something has to
> die.
>
> I'm more concerned about the quality of life of animals raised for
> food, their growing conditions, whether they've been fed antibiotics,
> were they crowded into pens standing knee deep in their own feces,
> packed into cages with no room to move, etc.
>
> I'm going to continue to eat animal proteins. But I want the animals
> I consume to have been raised for that purpose with care, honor and
> appreciation for their function, and processed in the most humane way
> possible.


"but I don't want to die!" --Wilbur the pig