Wednesday, March 31, 2010

On Eating Meat




I've been conscientious about my meat consumption for about 4 years now. For two years I rarely ate meat then for the next two I only ate fish. Recently, I gave up fish as well. I've been pondering the viability and ethical nature of raising animals for consumption. I am human, I do believe meat is delicious. My reluctance to consume meat comes from a few different places:
1. Environmental Factors
2. Animal Ethics/ Valuing lives (looking into my dog's eyes and hating humans = a shifting idea of equality)
3. Health (antibiotics in meat, fat consumption, etc)

I could go into all of these things but I won't. I assume any reader sympathetic with this blog should be intelligent enough to understand someone's reasons for not eating meat in an industrial setting.

And so if I can control most of these factors- growing my meat and loving it before consuming it- could I eat meat?
Could I eat rabbits I grew in a cage? Could I break a turkey's neck for a delicious turkey and avocado sandwich? For a couple weeks I thought I could. But we just added a new rabbit. And we have two chickens and I love those little fuckers. And they all have the most hilarious personalities. Could I take a life for a meal?

I don't think so. I really don't think I could feel any more justified doing that than I could by taking a human life. It's more socially acceptable, obviously, to take a non-human animal's life for consumption. I don't know!

Maybe I'll remain a vegetarian for life. Would that be so bad?

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