After some scanning of pro-meat consumption articles, it is still hard for me to be convinced meat eating at the current rate is necessary and ethical now or in the future. Some points to consider for the meat industry however, is the type of iron compound in hemoglobin and in meat. It is a great source of the natural, high quality, necessary compound and also protein. Some meat cuts can be very lean and meat in one's diet is common, healthy, and natural of the human species and many others.
Although with this type of diet and any other diets the proper portions, balance, and variety is essential to overall health. I do not have any issue with people who eat meat properly and act consciously of their choices. We have teeth in such a way for a reason, and bears as a more extreme example, are also omnivores.
However, how this diet choice reaches our stores is providing much of the ethical problem in consuming meat for the average family. Factory farming provides many economical problems for the area hosting the manufacture and the treatment of the animals giving their lives is deplorable. Health standards plummet, and contaminations are common from the horrible monotony of factory job conditions and standards. If the public is educated to the benefits of proper moderation and variety of food groups in one's diet, even vegetarianism, the market should be forced to respond to please the consumer. The demand for more wholesome and organic food is an excellent example. The consumers should continue to hold the meat industry and all food regulation involvement to a high standard of quality. If meat consumption must continue after all, then at least we can look forward to proper ethical treatment of the animals and sanitary standards finally met with urgency.
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i totally agree with you that the majority of the ethical guilt lies on the means by which the meat reaches the stores and consequently the dinner table although advocates for animal rights will argue that the ethics extends beyond the farmers and factory owners but also to us the direct consumers. I know that vegetaranians and vegans can maintain a healthy life style without necessariyl eating meet but that doesn't mean i'm ethical wrong for consuming something i know i ought to as human. We can also advocate that plants as living things have an inherent value does shouldn't be consumed like we do animals but we all know we have to eat at some point. bottom line is i think we can still respect animals and their inherent value and still eat them or use in a manner that reflects morality.
RA: How is eating an animal consistent with respecting its "inherent value"?
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