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> There is no ethical meat Depends on your definition of ethical. Assuming you define it in terms of a lack of cruelty to the animals and their handlers then
by cogman10 3y ago
> There is no ethical meat
Depends on your definition of ethical. Assuming you define it in terms of a lack of cruelty to the animals and their handlers then such meat does exist.
However, the vast majority of meat is not that. The issue is it's cheaper to produce meat unethically than it is to produce it ethically. Because of that, at every step in the production to mouth there's a strong incentive to go the cheap route rather than the ethical route.
- SkyBelow 3y ago>a lack of cruelty But doesn't this depend upon your definition of cruelty? I've seen vegans who define raising an animal for the purpose of eating it to be inherently cruel, even if it doesn't suffer any negative treatment until the day it is killed to be eaten. Even this is just going with common enough definitions found in modern society. If we expand our scope of what ethics and what views of cruelty are allowed, there is no end to what results we see.
- cogman10 3y agoTotally agree. And I don't fault people for taking such a position about livestock, it's not unreasonable. I don't land there myself but can see why others would. It really just comes down to definitions.