Karl wrote:...The fact that you see eating meat as morally comparable to performing depraved acts on an animal is your own problem to work through. I hope you realise how far beyond the realm of reasonable argument and conversation you are...
Beyond reasonable argument and conversation? Well, while I can admit that I don't actually see eating meat as morally comparable to sex with animals, I do feel that there is a very interesting double standard.
Have you carnivores never experienced even a
moment of compassion for the animal your meat came from? It doesn't stop me, because meat tastes good. But that doesn't mean I don't feel bad about it when it occurs to me, which it often does. Especially when I eat a well-done steak. A guilty pleasure, then.
I wasn't offended by the ad, but I do take some small exception to the way in which society almost glosses over the slaughter of animals, so that people don't think about what they are eating or where it comes from, which is exemplified in the ad - 'of course fried chicken comes from chickens, but those chickens are having the time of their lives and they
want to feed you!'
As mentioned before, vegetarian meat products are getting closer to the real thing (I've had more than a few meat eaters tell me that my Linda macartny sausage rolls are better than the real thing), so I have high hopes for a near future where all (or most) meat and diary products are entirely synthesised - especially steak!
Would everyone else be happy with that? Or must you taste blood when rending flesh with teeth?