However, I believe something can be upsetting to me without being morally wrong
Do you have any idea how much better the world would be if everybody understood this concept? ...oh, wait. Yeah, I suspect you do.
That said, I do think you shouldn't eat meat if you're not prepared to acknowledge, as non-abstractly as you can, that the meat comes from animals who are killed and butchered and turned into food. The best way to acknowledge that is to do the deed yourself, or at least to witness it being done. Because the alternative allows for an extraordinarily unhealthy worldview that doesn't want to think about the fact that beef comes from cows, which is closely related to the worldview that doesn't want to think about the fact that babies (of all types of animal) come from sex.
"Doing it yourself" isn't the important part. The important part is understanding at a gut level that it's being done, and why.
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Date: 2004-01-11 06:34 pm (UTC)Do you have any idea how much better the world would be if everybody understood this concept?
...oh, wait. Yeah, I suspect you do.
That said, I do think you shouldn't eat meat if you're not prepared to acknowledge, as non-abstractly as you can, that the meat comes from animals who are killed and butchered and turned into food. The best way to acknowledge that is to do the deed yourself, or at least to witness it being done.
Because the alternative allows for an extraordinarily unhealthy worldview that doesn't want to think about the fact that beef comes from cows, which is closely related to the worldview that doesn't want to think about the fact that babies (of all types of animal) come from sex.
"Doing it yourself" isn't the important part. The important part is understanding at a gut level that it's being done, and why.