• Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    10 hours ago

    I have a milk cow and it dies of old age. Would it be morally wrong for me to eat it? Just throwing the meat away is morally right?

    It’s not a question on how the animals are treated. It’s just the morality of eating meat.

    • quips@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      10 hours ago

      Sure but 99.99% of store meat is not this. Its factory farmed animals stacked in pens living in their own piss and shit their entire lives just before they are slaughtered young

      • Malfeasant@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        6 hours ago

        Yes, and we can argue all day long about the morality of that specific way of raising animals for meat, but that doesn’t touch the question of whether or not it’s moral to eat meat in general.

          • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            19 minutes ago

            They just did.

            Eating meat = a neutral action that has no moral dilemma.

            How we produce meat products = a large and complex question that does pose an ethical/moral dilemma centered around methods of production.

            How is that so hard to understand?