The Ethics of Eating Meat; Is Eating Meat Ethical?
Introduction
Eating meat is a decision that every person makes based on religion, values, and experience. Through these experiences, people hold different perspectives on the ethics of eating meat. The authors discussions offered their viewpoint on the normalization of violence, industrialization, and physical capacity as all three point of views show concern on the conversion of animal flesh to food for consumption. One addition author makes a case for not eating only plants.
Literature Review
In “The Human Cost Of Animal Suffering,”, Mark Bittman argues that “we’re better off eating less meat” and that “we have to look at how we treat animals and begin to change it”( 1). Eating meat is not ethical,in
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Bittman suggests that “meat eaters may assert that this is somehow justifiable, because we “need” to eat meat - just not cats or dogs or goldfish-to live” (Bittman 2). Consumers of meat argue that in order to live, we humans need to have meat in our lives. On the other hand, Schwennesen suggests that “our physical capacities to produce and consume have altered dramatically in the last sixty years; our ethical capacity to accept these realities are altering as well”, in other words as our physical capacities change, so has ethical capacities.
Analysis
Katz points out that we can either choose to eat well or choose to be ethically good. He argues “the mass production of meat can obliterate the life of the animal whose meat it is”, it suggests that the meat is the animals and we are taking away the personal right of their own meat (Katz 4). Whether we eat meat or not is not the issue, but it is the way that our system puts them into food for us to eat. The more that people demand meat than there would be more issues with the supply. I everything is done accidentally to the guidelines than it is industrialized.