In 200 years, eating meat will be illegal.
Make the moral choice now to be vegetarian before it’s illegal so you don’t look like an ass like this guy when people look back at him.
Well THIS vegetarian says that in 200 years, lab-grown gristle-free meat will be the norm, so nobody will see any need to kill living things to get some good natural protein in their diet!
Yeah that’s the point, being on the ethical side years before.
Not sure i’d try the lab meat though.
I don't know about lab-grown meat either, even if nothing died it's still mammalian muscle tissue. Ick.
But I think it will get cheaper than dead animals once the technology gets going, and for a while at least, dead animals will be the expensive non-processed gourmet option. But economic forces always bring about more changes than ethics, huge numbers of people don't give a rat's ass about ethics.
Yeah it would be too weird.
But at least no animals would die for those that do consume it.
if I had the strength I would. I know we were meant to eat meat, but we've all had animals, or if we haven't been to a farm we've seen videos of cows and chickens and goats who are incredibly loving and docile.
it feels wrong eating these long distance cousins of ourselves who actually can show emotion and have a very primitive form of language/communication.
My dad is a goat farmer by hobby and I have personally seen one goat piss into the mouth of another goat while it just stands there making a dumbass face. I dont feel bad in the very least killing those filthy animals...
shareive seen extremely cognitively limited handicap people. should we kill them too?
shareBeef will be illegal when fossil fuels are.
shareNot long then.
shareBeef smugglers will be the next cocaine dealers then. Select cuts like NY Strip Steak can be traded for large sums of hard cash or exchanged for sexual services from the most high end prostitutes in town. I know what my profession will be when u libturds ban beef...
shareIf farm reared animals would not have existed save for to enter the food chain, is it still really morally wrong to eat a hamburger?
Indeed, the animal was always destined to be slaughtered so in a way is it not more disrespectful to their memory not to savour then? Otherwise they died for no reason...
If people didn’t eat them in the first place there would be no reason to rear them as you say.
shareBut then they wouldn't exist at all.
Isn't existence better than no existence?
No it’s like forcing people
to reproduce to eat their kids later.
Not at all.
It's a genuine philosophical question. Take the humble cow for example, who will spend many a day enjoying the simple pleasures of life; standing in a field, literally chewing the cud, the sun beating down, a cool summer's breeze, not a care in the world.
Now, if we all became vegetarian that experience is removed, x millions.
Now sure, the end isn't the best but who are we to take away that beautiful experience of life for millions of animals?
Well where i’m from they are cooped up in a shed for months until the Spring.
shareSorry, I thought this was a genuine, interesting philosophical question to consider but I don't think given your answers, i.e. people eating their kids, slave owners (!), it's one you really want to discuss.
Which is a shame because whether we should wish to play god and deny millions of souls existence is an interesting one.
So I'll leave it there 👍.
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If early humans did not eat meat, we would not be the creatures we are today.
We would still be swinging in trees eating bananas.
Or would have become extinct as our brains were not smart enough to cope with the environment for this long.
That’s what people say. Who can tell what would have happened.
shareFire and the discovery of cooking meat made us able to have such large powerful brains. U ever meet a vegan in there 60s? They sound very weak and soft spoken. I respect em for there love of animals but wouldn't want to sacrifice my health just to save a couple of dumb cows
shareHe did what he had to do, and most people would do the same in his place, with the knowledge he had at the time.
Back in the day, it was the survival of the fittest.
If the europeans didn't use the other civilizations to evolve, they would be left behind and they would probably get conquered by the neighboor countries or even by other continents.
If Portugal didn't explore Africa and India, they would get conquered by Spain. Many other examples thourhgout the world.
Fortunately, today we (western world) are in a position where we can educate ourselves and live in peace with enough resources without being threatened by hunger, war, invasion by other countries (at least not in the traditional way). So slavery in the western world, today, is not comprehensible.