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Artificial meat consumer here, I’d argue a slight modification to that: it’s impossible to kill and eat animals ethically, if you cannot verify the animal was t
by jakear 5y ago
Artificial meat consumer here, I’d argue a slight modification to that: it’s impossible to kill and eat animals ethically, if you cannot verify the animal was treated ethically while it lived. For the vast majority of supermarket/restaurant food such verification is impossible, and in these cases I opt for the pseudo stuff (or just plain vegetarian). However, when buying directly from small family farms it is actually quite easy and I have no hesitations about consuming their animalian products.
- Toutouxc 5y agoDon't you think that killing an animal is unethical no matter how nicely it used to be treated? I'm currently trying to keep my meat consumption as low as possible, but I still eat some and I don't think it's very ethical of me. I'm the higher life form and cows can't really do anything about it, and most people won't hold it against me, but I don't think there's anything ethical about it.
- jakear 5y agoI believe that as conscious entities we have the power to choose the ethical “axioms” we use to guide our decisions. Under the axioms I’ve chosen I can “prove” (in a surprisingly formal sense) the claim “it is ethically okay to consume animals that have been treated humanely”. That being said, it would only take a slight modification to one of my axioms to successfully argue the opposite. I’d be very interested to hear how you use your axioms to argue the opposite. I’m happy to share mine but don’t want to taint your thought process before you’ve had time to fully consider the problem.