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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.

Seems kind of like an irrelevant distinction in our current system, though. The vast majority of the meat produced and consumed is done in horrendous conditions. Even things that are represented to the public as free range/grassfed/etc are typically misleading. If you live on a commune and eat your llama after it dies of old age, that's fine, but it's a corner case that distracts from the issue I'm talking about. I don't think it's possible to be a conscientious consumer of meat for most people -- and I don't think that most people who eat meat even try in the first place

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