How do you justify eating meat?

[Smiles & Giggles]

Certain types of hunting would be humane for an individual to perform if you're just putting the animal out of it's suffering, although farming and the meat industry are incredibly evil and supporting it is cruelty to animals. People who support these industries are either ignorant (possibly willfully) to the suffering of these other beings, or they simply do not care about them.

 

[ironrain]

Mass produced meat is bad. But if a cow or piggie had a good life running around and eating grass and having fun with their buddies then why not? Predators eat meat and they do it in way more creal way than what a human can do.
Mass produced meat is bad. But if a cow or piggie had a good life running around and eating grass and having fun with their buddies then why not? Predators eat meat and they do it in way more creal way than what a human can do.

 

[byec560]

I was vegan for four years, but I eventually quit because I think humanity is too selfish to give up meat. It would be more moral if I quit again as a statement, but it's hard to be passionate about something that won't ever change.

 

[Hvergelmir]

...it's hard to be passionate about something that won't ever change.

There has been tremendous progress over the past 100 years, starting with protection of endangered species and laws against cruelty.
Over the past 20 years that I've seen personally, there has been plenty of cultural and consumer facing progress.
There's little opposition to veganism nowadays - it's much more accepted. It's also easier to find vegan food. The quality is better, and the selection is much more varied.

I think the movement direction has been clear, and widely supported. I personally believe that artificial, lab grown meat is the future.