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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
If we were not created by intelligent design, we evolved to the top of the food chain by sheer ability to survive and utilise our environment to our advantage. In rising to the top of the food chain, we have justified ourselves by rite of trial. Were another animal at the top of the food chain, they would have no moral qualms about eating us. So regardless of the philosophical backdrop to the situation, there is a basic justification for eating meat, if you want to.
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If we were at the 'top of the food chain' we'd be eating tigers, among other things. Not that we deserve any credos for surviving 'by sheer ability' anyway, when it could just as well have been luck that we avoided the fate of now-extinct species. Our race is young -- we could still disappear. Hitler rose to the top, but almost no one thinks he should be congratulated. And our sense of ethical behavior wouldn't be ethical if we just copied what other animals do, especially if we consider them less mentally developed.
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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
There are limits, I will agree: I am thoroughly against animals being mistreated and stuffed in cages for the duration of their life, and I'll never waste a scrap of meat if it's in any way avoidable, but if need be I would kill and gut the animals myself and eat them, and I wouldn't feel remorse from the process. That may be murder, if you want to see it that way, but it personally does not matter to me, and I would never kill more than I needed.
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I'm with you here, except ideally I'd find a way to exist without killing animals if I could do so healthfully. I like most animals.