Eating Animals

I eat meat because I can.

Original post by anosmianAcrimony

I've spoken with plenty of animal-eaters in my time, and one of their favourite reasons (excuses?) for doing so seems to be that we are simply superior to the animals we eat. We are the dominant species on the planet, and so it is our right to eat whatever inferior animals are under our dominion.

So what if a highly advanced, super-intelligent alien species arrives, subjugates us, and becomes the dominant species on the planet? Presumably meat-eaters should have no problems with their systematically breeding, caging, slaughtering and eating us - it would be their right as our superiors.

Any thoughts?

Pretty sure if a superior race came here and harvested us it wouldn't give two ****s about its right to eat us. They can go ahead, we have nukes.

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Alexion

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Original post by anosmianAcrimony

What you've just said is that we breed the animals because we eat them and we eat the animals because we've bred them. What gives us the right to do any of that?

The right? Highly irrelevant, as what higher power judges us for this?

We have the opportunity and ability to breed and consume animal produce for the benefit of our own species, so we do. :cute:

Carnivorous and omnivorous species are everywhere, we're just more efficient at it.

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mohammed himself

Original post by anosmianAcrimony

I've spoken with plenty of animal-eaters in my time,
Any thoughts?

you mean normal people?

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TaintedLight

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Original post by TelAviv

What gives a lion the right to eat an antelope?

That's like asking "what gives a mother lion a right to eat her own cubs" .... or a male lion from killing cubs.

In context, we are vastly superior (at least supposed to be) in terms of intelligence and morality. We don't need to adopt a lion's way of life. In fact we can dismiss it as brutal and barbaric.

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goam

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goam

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Original post by mohammed himself

you mean normal people?

It used to be 'normal' to beat your wife, have black slaves, marry a child e.t.c Now I'm not comparing the consumption of animals to these things but I'm just trying to illustrate that just because something is considered to be 'normal' in this period of time, it doesn't mean that it's morally right/okay. :smile:

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mohammed himself

Original post by goam

It used to be 'normal' to beat your wife, have black slaves, marry a child e.t.c Now I'm not comparing the consumption of animals to these things but I'm just trying to illustrate that just because something is considered to be 'normal' in this period of time, it doesn't mean that it's morally right/okay. :smile:

Cuck!

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Drewski

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