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Originally Posted by MageB420666
Eating meat is something that allowed humanity to survive. Animals provide a food source during the winter when vegetation is scarce. And as the saying goes, old habits die hard. Besides, a nice medium-rare steak is just sooooo gooood.
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Eating meat most certainly was ncecessary for humans in the past. My point is that it is no longer necessary.
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In your argument your making a division yourself those that can express/feel pain vs. those that can't. Your entire argument supporting that we should not eat meat is at a basic level supporting that we should not eat at all, because we will be making an "exclusion". Your contradicting your own argument with your argument. A line has to be drawn somewhere, and unfortunatly for the cows, chickens, pigs, etc., they got put on the shitty side. That's life, everyone and everything suffers in some form or another, although to different extents.
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Indeed a line must be drawn somewhere. What I am challenging is where the line currently rests. My proposed criteria is that we should minimise the sufferring in the world. Many animals show obvious signs of sufferring, so we should avoid eating them. Plants do not suffer so there is no reason not to eat them.
There will always be borderline cases. I accept that. (e.g. is killing insects ok? maybe, maybe not). But the point is that cows, chickens, pigs and sheep are
not borderline cases.