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Dejan05 t1_itn2k97 wrote

Reply to comment by After_Kick_4543 in Lab-grown meat could let humanity ignore a serious moral failing by phileconomicus

This is ignoring we have morals and eating meat has moral implications which is enough of a reason to not eat meat

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After_Kick_4543 t1_itn3lay wrote

Well unless you believe in universal morality, morality is based in part on your nature. For a tiger eating meat has no moral implications because it has neither the option to choose or the ability not to eat meat. Humans are omnivores and therefore eat plants and meat, despite being intelligent enough to choose I would say it is not moral to reject your nature and therefore the choice to eat meat is not a moral one because it is a part of our nature.

How you treat the animals you choose to eat in life and in killing them is moral however.

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Dejan05 t1_itn3uwx wrote

Why isn't it moral? By that logic surely curing disease isn't moral either? If you get a natural tumour then by getting rid of it you're rejecting your nature.

Why is how you treat them a moral question but not killing them when you don't have to?

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