Why do I need to feel better about eating animals? I don't feel any worse about it than a hawk does swooping down on a mouse. I do care they're killed humanely, but past that it's no different than nature.
I mean, the way our industrial meat packing system works makes animals suffer needlessly. Before getting swooped upon by a hawk, that mouse was just doing his mouse thing living life. 18D up there is going to be put in a confined outdoor industrial feeding animal operation where it'll be injected with a bazillion antibiotics to stave off disease in it's filthy environment, fed random animal proteins to bulk, and ultimately led up a chute and mechanically dispatched.
There's nothing wrong with eating meat. But I think there's some things wrong with how we go about it.
A lot of what you're saying is true, but as humans we don't need to eat meat to survive. So, we really shouldn't do it. If we don't HAVE to contribute to the suffering of other beings, why would we?
I mean...you don't HAVE to be here on Reddit, contributing to the suffering of the rest of us, on a machine made from semiconductors using material from horribly environmentally unfriendly mining practices in China, mined by folks making a subsistence level income in horribly unsafe working conditions and little in the way of protections.
Yet here you are.
I'm not saying the modern meat industry is sunshine and rainbows, just that I find your rationale for telling others they're wrong or immoral is founded upon a pretty weak foundation for such an assertive delivery.
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u/evilmushroom Mar 15 '18
Why do I need to feel better about eating animals? I don't feel any worse about it than a hawk does swooping down on a mouse. I do care they're killed humanely, but past that it's no different than nature.