Certainly, I understand the moral argument of vegetarians. McCartney’s looking from the sheep in the fields to the sheep on his plate and having a satori, I get that. But I still eat meat.
Perhaps that’s because I’m weak willed and hypocritical, someone who basically lets my life be guided by what’s easy and comfortable.
Perhaps. But even though the main reason I eat meat is because I like the taste of meat, I have my rationalizations, like “if God didn’t mean for us to eat other animals, why are they made out of meat? ”, we’re at the top of the food chain, animals eat each other, and so on.
Perhaps some day the human race will be so enlightened that people won’t want to eat cows or pigs or chickens any more than most Westerners today would want to eat a dog or a cat, or even a rat for that matter. If they do, though, there is a secondary ethical dilemma they will have to solve first.
What do you do with all of the cows, pigs and chickens? No farmer is going to keep large numbers of them if not for profit. Maybe one or two as family pets, which is a form of slavery.
If the bulls , boars and cocks are all neutered to reduce the herds, isn’t that a form of genocide?
If they are all turned loose to roam the no longer existent prairie, their numbers will increase until something bad happens. They could wind up competing with humans for the available plant resources of the planet. Can the earth sustain 20 billion cows? 200 billion?
Or, as their numbers start to grow, due to the fact that we aren’t consuming millions of them at KFC, could the chickens start to die from some horrible virus, which then spreads through the human population, causing panic. Yes, that has already happened, but it could be a whole hell of a lot worse, after the chicken population explosion.
And pigs. Yes, they are cute in cartoons, and I’m told that individually, they make interesting pets. But they are shitty, smelly animals and they eat like pigs, which means anything they can get their vicious little snouts around, quickly and loudly. If there were large herds of them roaming the Midwest unsupervised, it’s lock the kids in the house time.
No, I really think it’s for the good of the planet, the human race and human civilization that we continue eating animals.
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