Humans eating non-primate sterilised meat, in moderation, is moral

I notice once again a complete lack of structured rebuttal like what I had presented in R2. However, I will rebut the new arguments brought forth by my opponent. Both dietary choices – omnivory and herbivory – cause animals to die. I’m not sure if my opponent knows the definition of an herbivore, which is a creature that only eats vegetables. Not sure how farmers eating the vegetables they grow causes death in animals. The dietary choice of being a herbivore does not at all cause animals to die. If we’re going to ask whether or not meat-eating is ethical because it causes animals to die, we also have to ask whether or not other common consumptive practices that also causes animals to die are ethical: Living in an apartment or house Wearing clothes from conventionally grown cotton Is eating pseudo-burgers made from soybeans My opponent is making a major fallacious argument here. As I have stated (which went un refuted), eating meat is a choice, it isn’t a necessity. Eating meat is killing an animal just because it’s meat will taste good. This is completely unethical. Living in apartments, houses, wearing clothes, and setting up a farm are all necessities. Where are we going to live if not caged in four walls? Will we strut about naked in the streets? Will we abandon our livelihood that is our farm? All of these things are more ethical than eating meat as they are forced, eating meat on the other hand is killing an animal because of gastronomic preference. Does that make him unethical? Only if anyone who eats anything whose production resulted in the death of an animal also unethical. Yes, it makes him unethical. The only product that people eat which results directly in the death of an animal are meat eaters, so yes, that is also unethical. One could even argue that since the meat-eater at least acknowledges the fact that the animal died for his meal, he’s the more honourable of the two. This is ridiculous. One could argue that the meat eater should feel the most guilty of the two because he looks the dead animal in the eye, realizes he cruelly ended a life just so he could have a nice 20 minute meal and then become hungry again the next day. And indeed everyone has blood on their hands as a direct or indirect result of their choices, consumption habits, and dietary practices. Fallacious thinking. In the UK alone 26 animals are slaughtered a second for meat. This number will only be undoubtedly higher in the US, as the US is the country that consumes the most meat in the world. [1] A farmer who runs over a rodent with his tractor doesn’t kill 26 cows, pigs, sheep, deer, or chickens a second. Between the two choices of meat eating and vegetarianism, vegetarianism is far more ethical. AFTER PUTTING IN ALL THE EFFORT OF REFUTING ALL OF THE WEAK ARGUMENTS THAT MY OPPONENT HAS BROUGHT FORTH, I VISIT HIS LINK AND FIND OUT THAT THE ENTIRE SPEECH WAS PLAGURIZED WORD FOR WORD. HIS ENTIRE ARGUMENT WAS TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE. THIS IS THE LINK: . http://www.marksdailyapple.com... PLAGURIZM IS AN AUTOMATIC 7 PONT FORFEIT. CLEARLY, I HAVE WON THIS DEBATE. MY OPPONENT HAS MADE A MOCKERY OF THIS TOPIC AND I SUGGEST THAT NEXT TIME HE PLAGARIZES FOR HIM TO CHOOSE A WEBSITE THAT GIVES A BETTER ARGUMENT AND NOT THE CRAP THAT WAS ON THIS ONE. SOURCES 1. . http://www.viva.org.uk...