I wonder how many rabbits, squirrels, birds and other animals that live on or under the ground are killed when land is tilled and crops are planted and harvested. Is there some moral math involved that says it takes 50 dead rabbits to reach the equivalent of one dead cow? Looks like it’s a case of out of sight out of mind. Looks like it’s time to grow your own food.
Unless we’re subsisting on a foraged diet of all vegetation, we’re harming some animals to feed ourselves. Probably more impactful than animals killed by plowing, agriculture displaces dynamic ecosystems with humans preferred monocultures. Every acre planted might support dozens of animals indefinitely if left to fallow. We humans take that food production capacity and horde it for ourselves, for better or worse.
This is serious? The "morality" of eating meat? Why don't you ask about the morality of genocide or the slicing off of the appendages, and the crushing of the small skulls, of unborn children in the womb? Now that would be a discussion worth having.
I don’t think eating meat is necessarily immoral. We are designed to eat meat as part of our diets and every animal has predators except apex species. But its a tough one, especially with climate change and often inhumane modern livestock practices.
I wonder how many rabbits, squirrels, birds and other animals that live on or under the ground are killed when land is tilled and crops are planted and harvested. Is there some moral math involved that says it takes 50 dead rabbits to reach the equivalent of one dead cow? Looks like it’s a case of out of sight out of mind. Looks like it’s time to grow your own food.
Solid point.
Unless we’re subsisting on a foraged diet of all vegetation, we’re harming some animals to feed ourselves. Probably more impactful than animals killed by plowing, agriculture displaces dynamic ecosystems with humans preferred monocultures. Every acre planted might support dozens of animals indefinitely if left to fallow. We humans take that food production capacity and horde it for ourselves, for better or worse.
This is serious? The "morality" of eating meat? Why don't you ask about the morality of genocide or the slicing off of the appendages, and the crushing of the small skulls, of unborn children in the womb? Now that would be a discussion worth having.
I don’t think eating meat is necessarily immoral. We are designed to eat meat as part of our diets and every animal has predators except apex species. But its a tough one, especially with climate change and often inhumane modern livestock practices.
Eat oysters! 😉