It is immoral to kill animals for food

"The 1st paragraph says that it is natural to hunt and eat animals. This is an appeal to nature. It is natural to rape; it doesn't make it moral. " Response: I highly doubt rape is natural, Because if it were many people would be doing it. Many people know it's wrong; therefore, It's not natural. A better analogy would be Fast Food: many people eat it while knowing it's bad for them, Because it's convenient; therefore, It's natural. Natural, Would be emotions such as anger and wanting to kill someone, But don't follow through with it because it would jeopardize your purpose. Reason > Natural instincts. In other words, Human morals > animal morals. I apologize for the life/death scenario, But yes you get the point. Killing animals is not justified, However, It's a biological thing that makes us more inclined to eating meat. . . It's cheaper than buying organic. . . More convenient. . . The list goes on, But I think the biggest issue is the meat industry itself and it's power over us that we have to worry about. That, And also our own discipline on choosing to stop eating meat. However, For the purpose of debating I will play devil's advocate. "The belief in a higher purpose is arbitrary. If I were to say I believed my purpose was to kill other humans, Would that be justified? " The belief in a higher purpose is certainly NOT arbitrary. It's not even up for debate. But, I will say that you do make an interesting point on what you just said. Let's say that someone were to believe their purpose was to do that. I would not think much of it because everything is for a reason. God created Good & Bad. Romans 11:36 For of him, And through him, And to him, Are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. It's not justified. . . But, Because we're nothing more than clay we can't expect to know the answers to everything. Only God knows, But yet we have this thing called Free Will (to a certain extent) which is so interesting. It's not okay to kill infants, Mentally retarded, OR senile people. It's not okay to kill any human being, But it's okay to kill animals as a means to survive. You're right about not needing to kill any animal to survive and just eat plants, Nuts, Etc. , For nutrients but then you could argue that some people don't deserve to eat. It's a waste of resources that could be given to people in need, Third-world countries, And the list goes on. "No difference between plants and animals. " Plants serve their purpose. Humans have a higher purpose, Would you not agree? I was just using pain as a supplementary example, But that's the not my main point. The core idea is that people who choose to go the vegetarian path would be doing so because they feel as if they don't want to be a supporter of the meat industry/unethical production of food. However, I'm simply trying to convey the message of we're all equal. Humans, Animals, Plants, Even dirt. Everything has its purpose to carry out, Except, Humans have been given all this power/duty to fulfill "x" purpose that sometimes we get caught up in trying to do what's right in the not so right kind of ways. Such as "it's okay to rape, Blame it on the victim for being too revealing" Such as, "it's okay to electrocute the black guy, Because the white man is always right" and the list goes on. Ideally, What I'm trying to say is, Maybe humans like you and I don't deserve anything. Maybe we're less than our less than equal counter-parts that we think is okay to hunt, Eat, And kill for sport because we're "above" them. At the end of the day, It's not right to think we're at the top of the food chain because we have all these abilities to out-survive another living species, But we do because it's in our nature to do so. Until we've humbled ourselves and realize that the problem is us, All of this talk won't matter until we truly open our hearts. There is a purpose, And it's believing a greater cause/idea/purpose.