Is meat-eating morally wrong?

[IIIIITHE1IIIII]

Jay520 said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

If their lives and deaths are relatively free from pain I don't see a problem with eating their meat. It's not like animals will have some sort of valuable lives and have a great impact on their - or other species' future.

An animal's life is all about feeling good or feeling bad. If they feel good throughout their lives it doesn't matter if we make it a bit shorter, in my opinion.

Depends on what you mean by valuable. Pigs, for example, have shown to be quite intelligent when given the oppurtunity to learn.

Well, different animals bring different forms of value. Pets bring value for their owners, animals in the wild bring value for the echo system and animals who are born to be food bring value to meat consumers. So I guess I should take back some of that statement. 

Still, one human has a lot more value than an animal. Using the human as meat would not make sense as a lot more potential value would be lost. An animal simply enjoys life (ideally) until it dies and won't bring scientific breakthroughs or anything while being alive, so shortening that lifespan would not decrease its value. On the contrary, after death is when its value starts kicking in.