But I like eating meat, it’s tasty – So if this is the case do you value your taste buds over the life of another animal? Quite simply, a few moments of pleasure for you is essentially a life cut short for a beautiful animal that just wanted to live.
It’s my personal choice to eat animals – Just think about this statement, if you apply this same logic to a different situation then shouldn’t we respect serial killers or rapists for their personal choice to harm others? Where do we draw the line when it comes to morality? What do you deem to be socially acceptable?
Morality is subjective – So my question is what is the difference between horse meat and cow meat? Dog meat or pig flesh? How do you define right from wrong? By what is culturally acceptable?
Certain cultures eat meat because it is tradition – Let me put this statement to you, certain cultures also oppress genders, eat dogs, and slaughter dolphins. Should “culture” dictate what is “moral”?
Eating meat is a natural part of the food chain – Selectively breeding, artificially inseminating, mutilation, imprisonment, separating young from their mother immediately after birth, exploiting an animal for their milk, flesh or eggs, slaughtering, hanging upside down to drain its blood all maintains the natural ecology of our food chain? Just because humans have invented a process to kill animals doesn’t mean it’s natural or necessary.
Killing animals doesn’t have to be cruel if done humanely – For an animal that does not want to be killed and struggles to live on the kill floor, how is there any such thing as humane killing?
Animals eat other animals – So my question again is, if babies or a deaf person cannot talk does that mean we can decide what’s oral to them?
Human rights are more important than animal rights – Aren’t humans animals too? If we are not, then we shouldn’t be compared to carnivores or omnivores in nature either.
Our Ancestors ate animals so we evolved eating animals – So when we talk of Ancestors we think of them as living in caves and having a much lower life expectancy. They did not have access to shops, with thousands of food choices, or access to Wi-Fi to order on line. How can you then compare what our ancestors did a fair justification to kill animals when it is unnecessary to do so in our time? Essentially this is an appeal to tradition fallacy.
It’s my personal choice to eat meat – When thinking of personal choice, does your choice involve a victim or do you personally have the choice to eat something else?
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