Thread: Video - World's Largest Hatchery - Um, wow.

Originally Posted by Xei

Pretty much the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard.

Of course you caused it to die. Do you think that the food industry produces a fixed number of animals each year and if people don't eat them then they just rot..? No, you demand more meat, so the supply increases, so they kill more animals. It's entirely your fault.

I don't think he relates to the food industry, but an animal who died of natural causes or an animal which does not contribute to the market system of the food industry.

I think the text in the spoiler uncovers some confusion. Note that the text is cut out of a larger text.

Spoiler for Good text on the problem:

Next: The meat eating vegetarian human vulture. Consider A, an ethical vegetarian, goes out to dinner with his significant other B. B, not a vegetarian, orders baked chicken. Now B has just contributed to the demand for meat since the restaurant will now order another chicken from its supplier, causing that supplier to kill another chicken. At this point (after B has been served) it does not matter one iota what happens to B’s chicken – the demand has been registered – eat it, bury it with a sacred ceremony, give it away – doesn’t matter as far as the demand for chicken meat goes. Halfway through the meal, B is too full to eat another bite. B offers A the chicken that has not been touched. A can eat the chicken knowing that doing so is in no way contributing to the future slaughter of chickens. Another example (not as simple and straightforward as the first, with perhaps a tinge of grey depending on how one defines the details): A goes to B’s annual office xmass party buffet where several hundred people (none of which A knows) eat, drink, dance, and socialize in the holiday spirit as they wander about the facility. Every year they serve the same amount of the same things (some of which are meat) at the same place in the same way. Again, A (the meat eating vegetarian human vulture) can eat the meat knowing that doing so is in no way contributing to the future slaughter of animals because A realizes that eating meat is not the problem – killing animals to eat them when it is not even vaguely necessary to do so is the problem. There are many other such real world examples where a meat eating vegetarian human vulture can eat meat without contributing to the abuse of other sentient beings.

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Meat eating vegetarian human vulture sounds as an ideal ethic.