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0 pointsrzimmerman2y ago0 comments

A counter philosophical take:

As a human, I can live a perfectly happy, healthy life without eating animals. Statistically it’s healthier, cheaper, and has no downside other than taste (meat tastes good, no argument here).

So ethically, how is eating meat any different than torturing and killing animals for pleasure?

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eadmund2y ago· 2 in thread

> I can live a perfectly happy, healthy life without eating animals.

That’s completely false: a life without bacon is less happy than a life with bacon, and thus imperfectly happy.

> So ethically, how is eating meat any different than torturing and killing animals for pleasure?

The former involves deriving pleasure from eating flesh; the latter involves deriving pleasure from inflicting pain.

000ooo0002y ago

>The former involves deriving pleasure from eating flesh; the latter involves deriving pleasure from inflicting pain.

Not all that different to an animal, though.

pallas_athena2y ago

When we will be able to grow meat in a lab, indistinguishable from real meat, with the same nutritional values, etc..., I will stop eating real animals.

Exactly 0% of my enjoyment of eating meat comes from inflicting pain to animals.

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