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My view on this is this: You either need to farm and kill animals, or you don't. Currently, we absolutely don't, and we arguably never did, because animal prod

• zer00eyz 3y ago
  >> need to farm ... milk ... eggs As an aside, Milk and Honey are the few foods that we eat that dont directly involve death. Milk and eggs being available are arguably products of technology, and farming is technology. There are ethical angles. Problematic farming, would drive you to ethical raised. Sustainability, would drive you to eat less. Technology enables you to make the choice of "I don't eat things with eyes". You eat plants, so the line for living things exists somewhere. Your ability to draw that line in an arbitrary (in the face of your biology) place is a product of technology, not a fundamental truth. It makes it hard for me to take "ethical" as an argument for your dietary choice. Ethics is a step on the path to judgement, to rules and I just dont see the argument holding water. (And im a person who eats little meat and could give it up, you can pry the butter out of my cold dead hands).
  • psd1 3y ago
    Dairy implies veal. You can't have milk and butter without either a cull or an expanding herd. There may be a biotech solution, which may bring up new ethical concerns.