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Originally Posted by The Batlord
A society predominantly of meat eaters? You don't think being raised from birth in a society full of burger eaters has shaped your attitudes on eating meat and the value of animal life?
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This is pure bull. You think every vet is a veggie? You think every animal lover recoils from meat? You're trying to make the issue black and white and it's not. It's completely disinegenuous to say that if you eat meat you value animal life less. There could be a zillion veggies and animals would still get hunted and killed for meat, because no way will the world ever be totally veg, and once there are people who want to eat meat there's an industry to supply that demand. Being a veggie doesn't save animals; it just means you don't have to feel you have to take responsibility for their deaths.
And there are shades of nuance. I eat chicken but I'd never eat dog or cat. I can't say I love chickens or that I don't feel momentary sadness if I look at a chicken burger or sausage and remember it was once an animal, but I'll be damned if I'm going veg. I hate veg. That does not make me less of a valuer of animal life than a veggie. A lot of them also eschew meat for health reasons, not moral ones.