They don’t set those concerns aside; they do mental gymnastics.
You’re giving those animals a life and a good death! All things die. Ackchually plants signal an alert too. They don’t suffer or love like we do. God said it’s OK. I buy fair trade lamb. Not until capitalism is over. It’s our culture.
Those are reasons, but they’re not good reasons. People are just too comfortable going with what they’ve known their whole lives, and changing takes effort, which they’re too lazy and scared to do. So they just keep going along, possibly thinking less than the cattle they’re consuming.
Though I’d also argue you can consume animals in a “morally good way” if you shoot them in the forest or raise them with all the love, so they have only that “one bad day”. That of course requires denying the idea that humans can be morally above nature and be responsible of not making choices that cause harm to other creatures because of the ability to have awareness of the choice. But that thinking is internally consistent; is it right is the question
They don’t set those concerns aside; they do mental gymnastics.
You’re giving those animals a life and a good death! All things die. Ackchually plants signal an alert too. They don’t suffer or love like we do. God said it’s OK. I buy fair trade lamb. Not until capitalism is over. It’s our culture.
I simply prefer it over starving.
Those are reasons, but they’re not good reasons. People are just too comfortable going with what they’ve known their whole lives, and changing takes effort, which they’re too lazy and scared to do. So they just keep going along, possibly thinking less than the cattle they’re consuming.
Though I’d also argue you can consume animals in a “morally good way” if you shoot them in the forest or raise them with all the love, so they have only that “one bad day”. That of course requires denying the idea that humans can be morally above nature and be responsible of not making choices that cause harm to other creatures because of the ability to have awareness of the choice. But that thinking is internally consistent; is it right is the question