Jay520 said:
SlayerRondo said:
1.) Why is it ok for animals to do the natural thing and eat meat but not humans?
Does it not have the same outcome for both of them with animals dying?
2.) Why not kill off all the animals who eat meat to save the vegetearing animals?
Because that would lead to other animals overpopulating and messing up the environment!
3.) How do you not know that but fore there use as food for people chickens, cows and pigs would have gone extict or will go extinct in the future?
Is it not better to live a short life and be made food rather than to have been wiped out centuries age?
4.) While the living conditions of animals need to be improved there is no evidence that they experience emotions (that cant be explained by instincts) or desire a future which are essential when determining the worth of a creatures life to itself.
PS: As far as science goes in the next couple of decades we will be able to produce meat without any awarness or intelligence at all. In my opinion this is bad as then the animals wont even have a short life to live as they will no longer be bred at all. There are billions of pigs in the world and barely any Polar bears. Which one do we eat again?
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1.) Because humans should have a higher level of consideration for other animals. Our morality shouldn't be compared to other animals.
2.) Same as above
3.) Who knows? It's an hypothetical. How could anyone answer that question?
4.) What kind of emotions? Fear? Curiosity? These are found in farmed mammals
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But that's just it isnt it. The biggest part of what makes eating animals OK but not humans is our morality. Are Animals without any concept of good or bad worth anything more that their meat? How can we claim to hold ourselves to a higher standard to thoose who have none nor ever will? Will a cow lion ever feel sadness for eating a Zebra?
I dont belive that their is evidence to support the argument that animals have emotions at all or that releasing farm animals into the wild would be good for us or the animals as they may not survice in todays enviroment after being bred for food for so long.
