• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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    2 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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      2 months ago

      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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        2 months ago

        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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            2 months ago

            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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              2 months ago

              Because something is ‘natural’ does not mean that its moral.

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                2 months ago

                Never said it was moral. I said it was specifically amoral, as in “has nothing to do with your arbitrary sense of morality”. Try reading again.

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                  1 month ago

                  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.

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      1 month ago

      From a vegan perspective its about harm, so honestly I think you’re pretty justified in saying eating carrion is moral.