Summary: The Moral Fabrications Of Meat

The Moral Fabrications of Meat

Dale Cunningham Student ID: D40066798 ENG-135-13386 Advanced Composition Jayme Dahlbeck Bunch

Meat is murder. Eat beans not beings. Friends not food. These are just some of the popular slogans that have cropped up in the latter half of the 20th century in a growing trend among a mostly urban dwelling environmentalist culture. The more radical among them maintain the eating of any sentient animal is immoral and a betrayal of humanity’s stewardship over the planet. The less radical among them insist that the methods used in the manufacture and mass production of our meat products is inhumane and cruel. Both questions will be explored to see if in fact there
They would like to convince themselves that the intelligence from which they derive their ideas is an ill gotten gain. When you eat a hamburger, you are culpable in the murder of an innocent sentient life form. This is the type of moral absolutism that reminds me very much of the kind of blind faith that condemns everyone to the fires of Hell for some mysterious “original sin” without so much as a single rational doubt. Needless to say, there is very little to take seriously with such dogmatic arguments that pre-suppose an irrational premise in order to dictate an equally irrational conclusion. One need only look back at the last billion years of reality in order to find an infinite supply of
Many of the conditions mentioned earlier in this paper are very real conditions on some of the huge mega-farms. Do we have a moral responsibility to ensure these animals live a relatively pain free existence before and during processing? Logically speaking, there is absolutely no moral imperative whatsoever to do or not do anything. Though realistically speaking, we are none of us unmoved movers so we must all judge our actions in relation each other and form some rational consensus regarding our situational awareness. Why do we have compassion towards one species of animal like the dog or cat, where we often share our homes and even our lives with, but not towards others animals like the cow or chicken. The short answer to that is because we can. Part of being a creative species with an imagination is having the will to be contradictory and not having to answer to any rigid formula or creed. It’s this very versatility that makes us such a thriving species and why no belief held in common ever stands the test of time, because it must give way, in every instance, to something