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“Meat is murder” is the claim that killing animals for food is unethical. ...
Introduction
I approached this assignment with an open mind, I am a meat eater albeit a person who now eats much less meat than I used to, because of the publicity surrounding dietary concerns.
Causing pain, or distress to animals is abhorrent and unacceptable to me under any circumstance
The emotive statement, “meat is murder”, was disconcerting and influenced my early thoughts about this assignment but as my research proceeded I found that this subject is coloured by emotive statements from both the animal rights lobby and meat eaters. ...
The title “Meat is murder” is misleading and inflammatory, murder is defined in the dictionary as “the unlawful taking of human life”, killing livestock for the flesh is therefore not unlawful.
Some People eat meat because they believe that it is a source of iron and thus needed for dietary reasons, others eat meat because that is what they have always done. Others choose to eat meat because it is convenient and they like the taste of it.
People become vegetarians for various reasons such as for dietary and health reasons, or because they do not like the taste or smell of meat. ...
Singer argues that that murder of a human being is wrong it therefore follows that the murder of a non-human person must also be wrong because we do not believe in specieism. ...
This then becomes the platform from which she compares meat eating to cannibalism. ... The quality of the meat is dramatically improved if the animal is relaxed at the moment of death. ...
Let us now consider the consequence of an Omnipotent person declaring that the eating of meat was now forbidden.
Approximate Word count = 1406
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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