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General Discussion / The Ethics of Eating Animals
« on: February 12, 2013, 01:53:52 pm »
In order to not continue spamming the 52 book challenge thread I shall continue this derail here.
There's a difference between profiting from something created by suffering and not creating more suffering in the future. If people continue to buy animal products in such a large scale without caring how it's produced then nothing will change. If I moved out of Canada the aboriginal people wouldn't retroactively have been treated better by my ancestors. If I stop eating meat then that's one less person who's actively supporting an industry the causes needless suffering.
And before anyone says that one person is a drop in the bucket, please compare that statement to early woman's suffrage or abolition movements. If the only time you're willing to make a stand is when the battle's already won then you're not making a moral decision, you're just going with the crowd.
Well, you could actually move out of the country as soon as you can. Also you are not the one torturing animals, the workers there are. Which means that if by your standards you are free from what your ancestors did to native Americans, you are also free of the torturing animals part.
There's a difference between profiting from something created by suffering and not creating more suffering in the future. If people continue to buy animal products in such a large scale without caring how it's produced then nothing will change. If I moved out of Canada the aboriginal people wouldn't retroactively have been treated better by my ancestors. If I stop eating meat then that's one less person who's actively supporting an industry the causes needless suffering.
And before anyone says that one person is a drop in the bucket, please compare that statement to early woman's suffrage or abolition movements. If the only time you're willing to make a stand is when the battle's already won then you're not making a moral decision, you're just going with the crowd.