I used to think that it was fine if others ate meat so long as I didn't participate. But after reading these arguments I don't see a reason why we should eat meat anymore. People will say I eat meat because I like how it tastes, but what this means, is you are willing to let animals die and live in horrendous living conditions for a convenient steak, which can be nutritionally replaced by something that is more sustainable and doesn't involve animal suffering. Every other main argument against veganism can be summed up by the responses below. I am willing to change my view, but I have yet to see a legitimate logic based reason that we need to kill animals for consumption. Argument Not eating meat leads to increase land usage and production, so veganism is bad for the Earth. We use more land to feed livestock than we would to feed humans. Huge amounts of otherwise usable land are used for grazing livestock. Argument Eating meat is the reason we are intelligent. Eating meat has little to nothing to do with our intelligence levels. Many animals are carnivorous and aren’t doing astrophysics. We simply evolved alongside our food, not because of it. Argument A lion wouldn’t think twice before killing you, so killing animals is natural. Plenty of activities are considered normal in nature. Killing a male to obtain its mate is very common in nature. It isn’t about what happens in the wild. We base our choices off of rational thought and morality not what’s common in nature. Humans aren’t carnivores, we do not require meat to survive. Argument Veganism lacks protein so it’s unhealthy for men to be vegans Broccoli, almonds, hemp, spinach and many more vegan foods are rich in protein. Since there are vegan body builders, it’s hard to make the protein argument against veganism. Argument Humans evolved to eat meat. We did. We have all the necessary bodily functions to catch, eat, and digest meat. This simply doesn’t matter. We are capable of doing many things we shouldn’t do. Systematic cruelty against animals is more important than our unnecessary evolutionary ability to accomplish something. Argument It won’t make a difference, the chicken will still be killed. There are two arguments against this. The most obvious is that meat is not immune to the laws of supply and demand. The other is that it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to partake in something you find morally objectionable because the morally objectionable thing will still exist. Edit The main post may not clearly demonstrate the argument I am addressing. I mean to say eating meat is unethical because it is not necessary, and doing so requires killing sentient beings as well as subjecting them to poor living conditions. The argument responses I posted were to address any of the common arguments against veganism.
Eating meat is unethical.