Before you hate on me…just think,how can it be, if it involves taking the life of a sentient being?
It just seems a little wrong to call it a personal choice in the sense that you’re choosing to ignore their “choice” to live…
With pets we tend to humanize them more, so we forget to see other animals as sentient individuals…i wish all animals were treated with the same compassion as we show to dogs and cats.
Edit: Whenever it comes to this topic, “personal choice” is usually used to convey something like “I’m not troubling anyone so leave me alone”, which I think is wherein the term doesn’t seem right
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I agree, and I eat meat. While I don’t agree that eating meat is immoral I do understand that one’s moral judgement on that is not purely a matter of personal preference.
To be fair, how you treat other humans is also a personal choice…
It’s quite literally a personal choice
I mean anything that you could choose not to do is a choice. The argument you are making in the body is that we ought to judge said choice as less trivial than as widely accepted-but that doesn’t make it not a choice.
Agreed: You are objectively correct by any (rigorous) moral framework, yet, this is still unpopular.
Everything humans do is personal choice
I tried going vegan for months and my body reacted so badly to it. Friends of mine had to stop being vegetarian per a doctors advice due to health issues.
What would you call it then ?
While it’s a bit difficult to learn due to cultural norms you can be perfectly healthy as a vegetarian.
It’s just as much a personal choice to eat meat as it is to not
It’s a choice people make…and that’s what makes it morally and ethically worse when people CHOOSE to stick to that diet. And there’s not really any consequences to making that choice either so people aren’t motivated to choose differently…
I’m beginning to think this demeanor is nature’s response to overpopulation. I support it. More for me.
No one is forgetting they are sentient individuals. This is just how life is.
I would eat a dog or a cat anyday. Fuck it i would eat human meat if it came to it
Whether they’re sentient or not is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is that they’re not human.
I feel bad for all the kale eaten by vegans. Who’s going to stand up for kale rights!
Animals aren’t humans and things like for example chickens probably wouldn’t even exist without us. We’re on top of the food chain, and some people need to get over it. You wanna save the animals? All power to you, let me be tho.
You don’t go to other animals telling them hey don’t be carnivores, those animals wanna live too
Tell that to a bear if you ever meet one
Ok but, if I personally choose to take the life of another living being in order to eat them…….then ain’t that still a choice I made?
Like I understand if ur opposed to eating meat, for various reasons.
I just don’t understand ur statement at all, ofc it’s a choice, it’s a choice everyone who eats meat makes every time they do it.
I mean I’m Hindu and follow a vegetarian diet, but I personally still fully believe instead of giving up on meat it is better ethically to start reducing harm to other living beings as much as we can even if it means we may have to consume meat at times. Some people find that it is the best option they have available (less wealthy, third world nations without a variety of choices). Some people’s bodies may not handle the vegetarian diet well too. It should be controlled amounts imo but I do think it is a personal choice everybody can make.
Plants, mushrooms, even bacterias are lifeforms. By that logic, we should entirely stop eating and avoid cleaning our body too.
0/10 ragebait try better next time
Animals eat other animals
Plants are living beings too, so your also “ignoring their choice to live”.
The animals we eat wouldn’t even be born if people didn’t want to eat them.
They might be sentient beings, but they only exist to serve a very specific purpose.
I grew up on a farm, do you have any idea how dumb chickens, sheep, and cows are? They would be extinct if humans didn’t decide they, or the things that come out of them, tasted good.
COOK! so true.
it is a personal choice, you just have moral issues with the opposite choice which is fine.
As a kid you eat what your parents give you but as an adult I eat burgers because I like em
it’s a personal choice for me bc i, personally, am not upset by the fact that im choosing to eat something that used to be alive. it just doesn’t upset me
“How is it personal choice when a living being is involved?”
Big brained redditor over here.
By your logic, Hitler didn’t choose to murder millions of Jewish people.
Wow. So deep. I feel like reading this has expanded my mind.
By which I mean shriveled it.
Eating meat, right now, is nutritionally important. If we go the ethical route, we will be malnourished.
The world is not filled with unlimited resources that billions of us can consume.
Seem to be lacking some of that vital B12 you can only get from animal protein there.
My farm girl senses are tingling.
I don’t think you know what a personal choice is.
Because that is a personal choice.
Yeah but they taste good
I had an LSD trip a while back and during the trip I was repulsed at the thought of eating meat, so much so that I couldn’t eat it for a month.
By any reasonable definition, plants, Cleverbot, and all open systems in fact are sentient beings
Nothing you stated backs up your header. Your opinion is terrible, and based off of that, I shall upvote you.
My thoughts on this subject always boil down to this: if every human on Earth suddenly decided to go vegan, what do you think would happen to the hundreds of millions of livestock animals? We’d just adopt them as pets and let them live out their natural lives? And what about their offspring? They’re prey animals to begin with, and humans have bred them to be even more docile. They can’t survive in the wild. What’s the solution?
And don’t even get me started about the amount of arable land available to feed 8 billion vegans, and how much carbon would be released trying to turn shit land into farmland, let alone how much chemical fertilizer would be needed.
Lmao 🤣
Having pets is also a personal choice.
You seem to be confusing personal with things that don’t affect others. Hint – most choices we make affect others.
I’m in the opposite boat, I’ll try eating any animal that is served to me. If somebody offered me dog or cat, I’d still try it. The only animals I won’t eat are humans and any animal I’ve tried and didn’t like.
Plants are sentient too.
All life should be respected.
It is also my choice to kill it, before i eat it. If a bear decided to kill me, would my “choice to live” matter ? Should i be angry that nature didn’t respect my choices or something ?
Animals, including us, have to eat other animals. Now it’s best to do this when they are dead as to avoid undu suffering. I’m big on humane farming and such, so to me it’s important that the animals we eat are treated right during their lives. For example, I know that in the dairy industry in new zealand (where I live), the cows are treated quite well throughout their lives.
Just because something is sentient does not mean it perceives or feels things in the same way or with the same emotional complexity as a human being.
I understand the point you are trying to makes, but what You posted is nonsense.
Eating meat is a choice despiste it involving some other being not agreeing with your choice.
Stealing is a choice Even if the person you steal (not to mention society as a while) from doesn’t agree withbyour choice.
The first task we have is to know what we cancontrol and what we can’t. What we can control is what we choose to do.
The most natural thing to ever exist
I don’t think you understand the term personal choice…
It’s my personal choice what food I put into my body. The end.
How does not humanizing meat like the way we do with pets correlate to whether it’s a personal choice or not?