Is it ethical to eat meat?

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So I had a discussion with a friend, who said she could not imagine not eating some sort of meat product at least once a day.
Personally I have meat free weeks and months, and try to avoid it as much as possible, but if I want to eat meat, I do so.

So I just wanna know what everyone else thinks?
Please respect different opinions and lifestyles.

Answer 1

meesegoMoo

Yoda

Depends. I wouldn't eat anything critically endangered, that way others could enjoy it's flesh in the future. For everything else there are a few decisions that need to be made.

How much more valuable are humans? And what amount of suffering are you willing to inflict for your pleasure?

Pheasant is delicious, and venison shouldn't 'ere be wasted.

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Answer 2

KrisKris81

Xper 5

I believe it's ethical and natural. There are numerous nutrients in meat which, through evolution, sustain us. Some of the highest quality proteins are found in meat.

The process of feeding animals specific food to make their meat taste different is a little sickening, but only unethical if it makes the animals suffer.

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Answer 3

Anoniemus

Yoda

Why wouldn’t it be? We’re omnivores. The food chain/web doesn’t cease because someone decides not to eat meat.

You think a hungry ass tiger whose tasted flesh wouldn’t attack you if they had our self-awareness and mental capacity?

Think twice.

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SofLund

+1 y
We're omnivorous, but that doesn't mean we have to eat meat.
The only reason we're on top of the food chain, is because of our advanced technology. (I. e. what if you were in a cage with a hungry ass tiger, I don't think explaining that you're on top of the food chain would help a lot?)

Why compare us to wild animals? They rape too and live by different hierarchies, so I guess that's fine too?

What I'm asking, is it ethical? It's obvious we can, but should we, or at least to the extent we do it today.
Anoniemus

+1 y
1) There are certain proteins necessary to function that resides in meat. So yes, we must eat it.

2) No. We are at the top of the food chain because we were able to adapt better than the animals as hunters and gatherers, not to mention our mental capacity.

3) If the tiger had the same mental capacity that we do, do you think it wouldn't attack us? You'd be ignorant to think that a tiger wouldn't simply because it could NOT attack us since it thinks it's wrong. That's the point. It's about survival and it's not healthy to not eat meat.

4) There is nothing wrong with eating meat as I've already answered because if they had the self-awareness that we do, many would choose to continue living as they do. We need proteins from meat to metabolize and function. The only thing wrong is how some people raise them because their quality of life isn't good.

Other than that, to say it's unethical to eat meat is nonsensical especially when eating plants are living beings and you likely have no issue with eating them.

Answer 4

SofLund

We're omnivorous, but that doesn't mean we have to eat meat.
The only reason we're on top of the food chain, is because of our advanced technology. (I. e. what if you were in a cage with a hungry ass tiger, I don't think explaining that you're on top of the food chain would help a lot?)

Why compare us to wild animals? They rape too and live by different hierarchies, so I guess that's fine too?

What I'm asking, is it ethical? It's obvious we can, but should we, or at least to the extent we do it today.

Answer 5

Anoniemus

1) There are certain proteins necessary to function that resides in meat. So yes, we must eat it.

2) No. We are at the top of the food chain because we were able to adapt better than the animals as hunters and gatherers, not to mention our mental capacity.

3) If the tiger had the same mental capacity that we do, do you think it wouldn't attack us? You'd be ignorant to think that a tiger wouldn't simply because it could NOT attack us since it thinks it's wrong. That's the point. It's about survival and it's not healthy to not eat meat.

4) There is nothing wrong with eating meat as I've already answered because if they had the self-awareness that we do, many would choose to continue living as they do. We need proteins from meat to metabolize and function. The only thing wrong is how some people raise them because their quality of life isn't good.

Other than that, to say it's unethical to eat meat is nonsensical especially when eating plants are living beings and you likely have no issue with eating them.

Answer 6

OonaSFW

Xper 4

"is it ethical for lion or hippo to eat meat?"

Humans are omnivorous, we were built to eat also meat. Now its totally different thing of discussion whether people should eat as mich eat we are currently eating (imo no)

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Answer 7

Adam1978 | 115 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Guru

Ethics only applies to how you treat the animal when it lives, not what you do when it's dead. So I am fine with eating animals but I am against animal factories where animals are just products not living, feeling, thinking creatures.

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scooogy

+1 y
Perfectly said

Answer 8

scooogy

Perfectly said

Answer 9

ZeinabA

Xper 4

from 13 months age i became a vegan. It was one of my best decision in my life.
My world now has a different color.😍
Be in a peace friend🤞💚

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Answer 10

Warmapplecrumble | 592 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Guru

Yes it's ethical to eat meat. It's not ethical to kill humans who need meat such as human babies, elderly and pregnant women.

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Answer 11

blutwolfe | 273 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Guru

eat yeah, cycle of life. Not gonna stop a grizzly bear from eating you alive cause he's worried about ethics

How they're raised is a different story, but that's not the question

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Answer 12

Pamina

Guru

That obviously depends on your ethical beliefs. It's mostly unethical to my ethical beliefs.

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Answer 13

Deathraider | 451 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Guru

It’s not ethical in the sense it’s morally righteous. I don’t assign a moral value to eating meat.

I mean if you have a moral reason for refraining from it, I would think it’s more of a “moral extra credit” in the sense that it’s a good thing to do, but not doing it isn’t bad.

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Answer 14

leahzrc | 184 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Yoda

i have been vegan for 5 years and i guess i dont understand the conversation

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worldscolide | 357 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Master

The only time it's not ethical is if any portion of the animal is wasted. That thing had to die to feed you, no waste...

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Answer 16

_gigi18

Xper 5

Well it isn't given how we farm them now. Its apart of being human to eat meat but as it was industrialised we do abuse animals for dairy and meat products

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Answer 17

Chase7777

Xper 4

Ethics are a human construct. We are animals too, we are on top of the food chain.
Everything we eat are living organisms, a banana has almost the same dna as us. We don't get by without killing other things, it's nature.

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Answer 18

Gedaria

Master

If want to it up to them, I don't , but Im too sentimental to think they have died so I can feed my face...

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Answer 19

Sargentcaptain

Explorer

People don't think twice about eating plants and they are also living beings.
Sure there's a problem with factory farms and animal cruelty but the thing is that humans need to eat meat.

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Meatunnel69

+1 y
Yea plants are beautiful and under time lapse its quite scary to watch how alive they really are

Answer 20

Meatunnel69

Yea plants are beautiful and under time lapse its quite scary to watch how alive they really are

Answer 21

Anonymous

I don't see anything wrong with eating meat. Sure, some of the places treat the animals like crap before they process it into our food, but not eating meat doesn't change that. The people who go ballistic about that are hypocrites because the people that make their clothes or cheap crap they use every day are treated like crap too, but that doesn't stop them from buying the clothes or stuff from China.

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Answer 22

Proxyz123

Xper 7

There is an environmental reason not to eat meat. The ethical reason would be the way the slaughter houses treat the animals

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Answer 23

BeingSingleBlows

Xper 4

Of course it ethical. Its nature. Is it ethical to eat meat?

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Answer 24

glutendan

Xper 5

I only eat meat products but I only buy from local farms where the animals can roam, and the rest is wild caught fish.

I'm strongly against factory farming

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Anoniemus

+1 y
Apparently they taste much better.
Meatunnel69

+1 y
They taste better in my opinion and animal welfare is important even if they are sold for meat or eggs
glutendan

+1 y
Yes, quality meats do taste better. The best in my opinion are fresh hunted meat, but it's too lean for most people.

Answer 25

Anoniemus

Apparently they taste much better.

Answer 26

Meatunnel69

They taste better in my opinion and animal welfare is important even if they are sold for meat or eggs

Answer 27

glutendan

Yes, quality meats do taste better. The best in my opinion are fresh hunted meat, but it's too lean for most people.

Answer 28

bangyourhead

Guru

There are ethical ways to source meat. I wish it was easier and more cost effective to have ethical meat. But I’m still eating meat regardless. Nature really doesn’t care about ethics when it comes to getting nutrients.

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Answer 29

wyzb_ondmyears

Xper 3

There's a reason we have canines, incisors, AND molars...

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Answer 30

Cage4

Xper 7

I think it's perfectly fine to eat meat as long as it is not eaten excessively

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Answer 31

Meatunnel69 | 100 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Yoda

Ill quit when they quit Is it ethical to eat meat?

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