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Oxford News blog. Matt Pickles. Here, he gives five ethical arguments for giving up meat: 1. The environmental impact is huge 'Livestock farming has a vast environmental footprint. It requires masses of grain, water and land Meat production is highly inefficient — this is particularly true when it comes to red meat. It causes unnecessary animal suffering If we accept, as many people do, that animals are sentient creatures whose needs and interests matter, then we should ensure these needs and interests are at least minimally met and that we do not cause them to suffer unnecessarily.
In short, industrial farming causes animals to suffer without good justification. Our answer to 'Dragons' Den'. Lions have been eating meat since the beginning of their time and they also have a different digestive tract and shape of teeth. By lowering the amount of meat people consume, it will decrease the amount of torture animals go through. Therefore, people should consider more plant-based diets. Mariam Alashmawi is a senior and this is her second year as a staff writer for the Silver Streak.
Is Homework Necessary to Assign? TikTok is TikToxic. Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Realistically, meat consumption plays a big role in world hunger. We use a lot more food to feed animals that we kill than meat that gets produced. Simple google search will tell you that. Also if your saying that killing plants and animals is equally unethical, do me a favor and cut a leave off a tree, then go cut the tail off a pig.
You tell me which feels more unethical. Those of you who says plant also suffer as much…then I dare you to kill the food of an animal by yourself or kill the food from a plant … only then you would experience the truth of which feels better…. If eating meat is unethical, killing millions of plants each day is unethical as well. What about the billions of bugs that are poisoned by the chemicals sprayed on plants?
Why do those living beings not matter? And to claim that eating meat is not essential to humans? Just because you are fortunate enough to be able to afford fresh vegetables and fruits does not mean everyone is. If all humans cut meat entirely out of their diet millions would die of starvation.
As for the mass factories that keep cows in 4 foot cages and brutally slaughter animals each day, I completely agree that those factories should make some severe changes in how they treat their animals. But claiming that eating meat is purely unethical and killing plants is not, is contradictory.
Eating animals is not a necessity. Some ask us to confront the circumstance of an alien species more advanced than humans landing on Earth. Others point to the environmental harm caused by the livestock industry—its significant contribution to water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, among other concerns. There are people who think vegetarianism is critical while veganism is unnecessary.
Some protest the poor treatment of animals in the livestock industry but are fine with the actual practice of eating meat, if the raising of the meat was done humanely.
Others are fine with eating lower-level animals but not those which are more sentient—like Christopher Cox, who argues that eating oysters is the moral equivalent of eating plants.
Whether future humans will be mostly vegetarians or eaters of in vitro meat and look back upon all forms of meat-eating, cruel or humane, as immoral is less clear to me.
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