From an ethics standpoint, eating meat is inconsistent with our common assumptions and behaviors. The reason why it is so strongly considered in the EA movement, and why it is perhaps our gravest moral emergency, is because people aren’t convinced of the moral argument.
What would you think of me if I said I bought dogs and beat them to death in a slow and painful manner? For the sake of being socially included? No serious person, especially in this forum, would condone such a thing. Clearly we have sympathy for those beings that experience pain and do not wish to see them unnecessarily suffer. And it is not morally commendable to ‘sometimes’ be against this. The person beating dogs might not like doing it on Sundays, but would our moral judgement of that person change because of that? The same can be said of the Auld’s, who infamously refused to beat Frederick Douglas on Sundays because they were good Christians.
The question one needs to consider is this: does the pain experienced by these animals justify the pleasure you feel on your taste buds? I don’t think you could seriously say it would, unless you are in a situation where you are required to eat meat and there aren’t alternatives. It is also seems inconsistent to be a patron of the EA movement, and simultaneously neglect the single gravest moral emergency, the greatest contributor to green house gas emissions and climate change, the greatest threat to a pandemic, and the greatest human health emergency. Why not start from an honest and unbiased perspective and ask ‘why am I doing this in the first place’?
From an ethics standpoint, eating meat is inconsistent with our common assumptions and behaviors. The reason why it is so strongly considered in the EA movement, and why it is perhaps our gravest moral emergency, is because people aren’t convinced of the moral argument.
What would you think of me if I said I bought dogs and beat them to death in a slow and painful manner? For the sake of being socially included? No serious person, especially in this forum, would condone such a thing. Clearly we have sympathy for those beings that experience pain and do not wish to see them unnecessarily suffer. And it is not morally commendable to ‘sometimes’ be against this. The person beating dogs might not like doing it on Sundays, but would our moral judgement of that person change because of that? The same can be said of the Auld’s, who infamously refused to beat Frederick Douglas on Sundays because they were good Christians.
The question one needs to consider is this: does the pain experienced by these animals justify the pleasure you feel on your taste buds? I don’t think you could seriously say it would, unless you are in a situation where you are required to eat meat and there aren’t alternatives. It is also seems inconsistent to be a patron of the EA movement, and simultaneously neglect the single gravest moral emergency, the greatest contributor to green house gas emissions and climate change, the greatest threat to a pandemic, and the greatest human health emergency. Why not start from an honest and unbiased perspective and ask ‘why am I doing this in the first place’?