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Episode #071 ... Is Killing Animals For Food Morally Justifiable?

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Why Is It OK to Eat Meat?

The real reason it's ok to eat meat is because we are just higher up on the food chain than all these other animals. In nature, i'm sorry, but that's how it goes. The smaller fish always gets eaten by the bigger fish. Only the strong survive. And we're the stronger creature, therefore it's ok. So the criteria they're using here is an oldy, but a goody. It's the classic might makes right principle. Think of all the horrible things that your moral criteria justifies. If it truly is as simple as might makes right? What jus gives me carte blanche to kill them, eat them, skin them and wear them around

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