"Ethically speaking, vegetables get all the glory. In recent years, vegetarians — and to an even greater degree vegans, their hard-core inner circle — have dominated the discussion about the ethics of eating. From the philosopher Peter Singer, whose 1975 volume “Animal Liberation” galvanized an international movement, to the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who wrote the 2009 best seller “Eating Animals,” those who forswear meat have made the case that what we eat is a crucial ethical decision. To be just, they say, we must put down our cheeseburgers and join their ranks.
Hello, rabid vegetarian animal rights activist here. I don't have any ill will towards those who eat meat, but this entire competition is just a tad ridiculous. It's definitely something to bitch about on how vegetarians can be outspoken and self - righteous at times (I.E me) but you know, Trying to argue that eating meat is ethical when you consider the slaughter, the horrible practices, and even the crap they put into these things (Once I saw a report on how women were getting boobs at a smaller age due to factory farms injecting their chickens. Now, there's nothing wrong with boobs, but we probably should stop doing this shit before we find out this stuff also makes our dicks smaller.) the notion that it being 'ethical' becomes rather ridiculous.
Now, it makes me want to stab my self in the eyes for saying this but there's nothing wrong with meat. It's the cruelty that's involved which is worth bitching about. And I think animals not being treated horribly is something we can all universally agree. Trying to make up this nonsense about eating meat somehow 'being ethical' as if to implicate it's a morally righteous over vegetarianism is ridiculous. The entire notion its self just undermines animal rights in general. If you want to eat meat there's nothing wrong with that, but there is, however, something inherently wrong with being dishonest. This entire competition is probably just a few butt hurt guys that got annoyed from a few self - righteous vegetarians telling them that eating meat is bad and they decided to respond by trying to argue that indulging in eating meat -
which requires no fucking sacrifice - is somehow more ethical. It's not. But you know, why do they do this just to piss off vegetarians when not all of them are like that? I mean, I can be self - righteous and outspoken, but I don't go around telling people that they shouldn't eat meat. I keep that shit to my self. In fact - here's the killer - I've been told that I should try eating meat and give it a shot. So - literally - there's not just vegetarians that go around preaching to others not to eat meat, but people who eat meat who preach about how wonderful it is.
If vegetarians get annoying with telling people what they can and can't eat than they should just be the better people. You know, as opposed to trying to argue that 'eating meat is ethical'. Seriously, this is a battle they're going to lose - badly. Vegetarians change their entire diets and certain aspects of their life as to not support an industry that unethically slaughters animals. Meanwhile we look at these people who try to argue that 'meat is ethical'. Lets see, they eat whatever they like without sacrifice, they don't need to change anything about their life to continue eating meat, and they promote an industry that performs unethical practices.
Gee, that didn't take too long. But the reason this particular gets to me is because becoming a vegetarian wasn't easy for me. Eating meat isn't ethical, it's relevant. For the time being there's nothing wrong with eating meat, because asking the world to not eat meat is just too much for now. It's for the greater good that we instead try to take one step at a time in making sure these animals are treated better and not making fragile justifications that eating meat is somehow ethical.
With all my rambling, I wish to finish off with saying that meat eaters: Don't be a dick about it, same goes for vegetarians. And please, do whatever you can to ease suffering of other creatures.
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