Re: Is it right to eat animals?

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From: Dutch
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:27

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"Aunt Sally" <aunt@sally.com> wrote
> Is it right to eat animals?
> http://www.animalfreedom.org/english/opinion/eatmeat.html
>  Based upon freedom as a basic right for man and animal, it is man's
> moral obligation to respect the freedom of others.

Animals don't care about "feedom" in the same way humans do, they are driven 
by the instincts to propogate their species and to obtain sustenance. 
Livestock species have been spectacularly successful at those aims thanks to 
man.

> Does (not) eating meat belong to this moral obligation? The vegan, who
> wants to make use of animals as little as possible, will certainly
> assent to this.

Not eating meat is not synonymous with not causing harm to animals. This is 
the fundamental misconception of veganism.

[..]

> That people who eat meat from industrial farming turn aside from their
> duty, is something we want to make quite clear on Animal Freedom: we
> think a moral border is being crossed here.

More than meat is produced by "industrial farming", and all of it has a 
negative effect on animals.

> The origin and the foundation of this moral border are substantiated
> by our article on freedom as a basic right for animals.
> Due to industrial farming premature exhaustion takes place of the
> earth, the environment, human health and animal welfare.
> Whether or not people who eat biologically produced meat or comparable
> meat products cross a moral border, depends on the way you look upon
> people's right to yes or no be allowed to kill animals. These meat
> consumers will defend themselves by bringing forward that, before its
> death, the animal was given the chance to live an animal-worthy life.
> With that however, man has not yet obtained the right to be allowed to
> kill animals.

Our lifestyles kill animals, lots of them, meat or not. You're pushing a 
fallacy.

[..]

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