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s0nicfan posted...

Honestly, any feelings of guilt behind eating meat is just the remnants of being raised in society shaped by religious ideals. Absent a God, we are just animals, and evolved over tens of thousands of years to be omnivores. Humans eating meat is no more immoral than any other animal that eats another animal.

You can make arguments about sport hunting, or animal cruelty, and there is some validity to that because we have the capacity to mitigate suffering. But there's no actual moral basis on simply being against eating meat unless you invoke God in some way to declare that we are special or animals have souls.

Hmm, I get that you're making a distinction between how we obtain the meat and the cruelty involved in that, and just the act of eating animals. I'd still disagree that there needs to be a religious reasoning to think the latter is morally wrong.

I'd have to think about it some more
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