I would. If I eat meat I am responsible for taking that animals life, whether or not it’s me that performs the killing blow. At least I know if I do it, it will be as quick and painless as I am able to make it. In the case of hunting, I would take some comfort in knowing it lived free and not in a cramped cage in a factory farm or something. If I was able to raise my own animals, I would give them the best and happiest life I was able to give them, and also end their life as painlessly as I could manage when it was time for that.
I wouldn’t at all enjoy the act of killing, but I feel like it shows at least a little respect for the life of the animal that I am willing to take the responsibility to do it myself, precisely because it is a hard thing to do. I would never have eaten meat if I wasn’t wiling to do the killing myself.
I recently switched to a Pescetarian diet, partly so I can stop supporting factory style farming. I know it’s an anthropocentric pov but Its easier for me to kill fish and other sea creatures than land critters, but I still try to be as humane as possible when doing it.
I will never eat anything in the Dolphin, Whale, or Octopus families, which is another anthropocentric thing, and I guess it made me a hypocrite because I did eat pork and they are intelligent too. I am trying to reduce the harm I do at least.
Seeing what some vegetarians and vegans eat instead of meat makes me laugh. One half is exotic stuff flown in from the other side of the world at a vast expense of the environment, the other half is Ultra High Processed Food laced with chemicals most people cannot even pronounce…
Just because we CAN do something, doesn’t mean we should. We are supposed to be superior to animals (at least according to some humans). Why are we doing what the animals do if we’re superior? Animals also rape each other and commit infanticide. Why aren’t we doing that too?
I think it’s totally natural for humans to eat meat. But also definitely more moral to abstain from eating it.
The process of eating meat? Sure.
The way people in the modern world obtain meat? Nothing natural about that.
If I was made to hunt my game, or kill the animal I raised, I’d never eat meat.
I would. If I eat meat I am responsible for taking that animals life, whether or not it’s me that performs the killing blow. At least I know if I do it, it will be as quick and painless as I am able to make it. In the case of hunting, I would take some comfort in knowing it lived free and not in a cramped cage in a factory farm or something. If I was able to raise my own animals, I would give them the best and happiest life I was able to give them, and also end their life as painlessly as I could manage when it was time for that.
I wouldn’t at all enjoy the act of killing, but I feel like it shows at least a little respect for the life of the animal that I am willing to take the responsibility to do it myself, precisely because it is a hard thing to do. I would never have eaten meat if I wasn’t wiling to do the killing myself.
I recently switched to a Pescetarian diet, partly so I can stop supporting factory style farming. I know it’s an anthropocentric pov but Its easier for me to kill fish and other sea creatures than land critters, but I still try to be as humane as possible when doing it.
I will never eat anything in the Dolphin, Whale, or Octopus families, which is another anthropocentric thing, and I guess it made me a hypocrite because I did eat pork and they are intelligent too. I am trying to reduce the harm I do at least.
Killing a cow I raised would be the same as killing a dog I raised.
Just because it’s “yummy” and “I feel like it”?
Seems pretty insane to me, but people be people’ing.
It’s also totally natural for humans to put those that we consider inferior into horrible death camps after all.
That is hardly the natural way of getting meat
Seeing what some vegetarians and vegans eat instead of meat makes me laugh. One half is exotic stuff flown in from the other side of the world at a vast expense of the environment, the other half is Ultra High Processed Food laced with chemicals most people cannot even pronounce…
If you aren’t raising cows in your backyard, I have bad news for you…
If the situation were reversed, chickens would eat us without a second thought.
Good people of Cyrodiil. Welcome to the arena…
Because the chicken is incapable of acting morally. Humans should hold themselves to a higher standard.
I’ve seen a rooster eat a chick before, it was horrifying.
Congrats, you have the morality of a chicken?
Sorry best we can do is horrors beyond your comprehension. As is human tradition.
Just because we CAN do something, doesn’t mean we should. We are supposed to be superior to animals (at least according to some humans). Why are we doing what the animals do if we’re superior? Animals also rape each other and commit infanticide. Why aren’t we doing that too?
Because we’re only animals!