• Sludgeyy
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    3 months ago

    I have a milk cow and it dies of old age. Would it be morally wrong for me to eat it? Just throwing the meat away is morally right?

    It’s not a question on how the animals are treated. It’s just the morality of eating meat.

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      Sure but 99.99% of store meat is not this. Its factory farmed animals stacked in pens living in their own piss and shit their entire lives just before they are slaughtered young

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        Yes, and we can argue all day long about the morality of that specific way of raising animals for meat, but that doesn’t touch the question of whether or not it’s moral to eat meat in general.

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            They just did.

            Eating meat = a neutral action that has no moral dilemma.

            How we produce meat products = a large and complex question that does pose an ethical/moral dilemma centered around methods of production.

            How is that so hard to understand?

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                  I have trouble understanding how it could be amoral. Every time you eat meat you are making the choice to contribute to crimes than the holocaust? Who, without your contribution, would have a reduced capacity to commit suffering.