Reply #111: Well, the problem here is that in order for you to eat meat [View All]

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the animal has to be killed. So by eating meat you really are condoning the killing of animals. And taking the fallback position of "well, it was already dead" is not a good excuse, because the animal wouldn't be dead if there wasn't a market for dead animal flesh. That's a far too easy copout to get the blood off your hands, so to speak. The acr of purchasing meat is tacit approval of the killing.

Unless what you mean to say is that you are against YOU killing an animal, and not against the killing of animals in general.

That's a bit wishy washy, but not as hypocritical as being against the killing of animals while studiously going to the grocer's every week for your shrinkwrapped containers of flesh.

(and I say this as a happy, unashamed, animal-killing meat eater)