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Jeff McMahan on Vegetarianism

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The Moral Importance of Eating Fish

An animal that's been reared specifically as food only came into existence because it was going to be eaten. Why should you send animals certainly matter a lot less than your child does? I don't think that eating fish is morally comparable to eating animals that are factory farmed by human beings mammals. It's also true that fish unless they are themselves factory farmed have lives that they would otherwise have had.

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