Is meat-eating morally wrong?

[mrstickball]

Jay520 said:

mrstickball said:

The ones that constantly try to force new laws on the books that drive up the cost of meat, while giving their own lobbies subsidies, mostly.

Also, people that turn it into an issue of moral superiority - those that believe that the death of animals is some sort of evil that has no comparison. Many animals are treated with respect and honor before they die to become food. Furthermore, if some animals were not killed, their populations would grow to unsustainable levels, causing pain and suffering for the animals as well as humans. Wild pigs and deer are very good examples of this. Without deer hunting, disease would be rampant, and many deer would (also) starve to death, while depriving humans of grains.

Fair enough.

As for the second part, I don't think it has to do with having superior morals; it's moreso different morals. I'm aware of the benefits of hunting to control population and I don't think any people would consider that wrong. It's necessary for a greater good.

PETA is against it.

http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/tags/hunting/default.aspx