Is there any meat you wouldn't eat?
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Okay, in this situation I might eat it to be polite. But even then an ethical issue arises in that case because they might be hunting it to extinction because they know that guests enjoy it and people come to them knowing it will be served.Airsoftslayer93 said:
It is a nice idea, but this wouldn't work. The animals we domesticate are domesticated because they are relatively easy. Carnivores are very hard to farm on a mass level (think about the amount of meat they would need and most endangered herbivores are hard to deal with. Think about how difficult it is to raise their numbers in captivity as it is. PLUS, you can't tell the difference between farm raised and wild animals...people might decide it is cheaper to hunt the wild ones and claim they are farm raised.Airsoftslayer93 said:im not suggesting that profiting is what you want to do, or what anyone wants to do, but maybe thats the solution, imagine a world where the potato hadnt ever become popular, its unlikely that anyone would eat it and therefore it may be extinct, why dont we make it trendy to eat endangered animals, causing big multinational companys to invest in their breeding, causing a huge population surge, problem solved
but if they killed natural ones, not bred ones, then we would still have bred ones, plus tbh it was a bit of a jokeCitySquirrel said:Okay, in this situation I might eat it to be polite. But even then an ethical issue arises in that case because they might be hunting it to extinction because they know that guests enjoy it and people come to them knowing it will be served.Airsoftslayer93 said:
It is a nice idea, but this wouldn't work. The animals we domesticate are domesticated because they are relatively easy. Carnivores are very hard to farm on a mass level (think about the amount of meat they would need and most endangered herbivores are hard to deal with. Think about how difficult it is to raise their numbers in captivity as it is. PLUS, you can't tell the difference between farm raised and wild animals...people might decide it is cheaper to hunt the wild ones and claim they are farm raised.Airsoftslayer93 said:im not suggesting that profiting is what you want to do, or what anyone wants to do, but maybe thats the solution, imagine a world where the potato hadnt ever become popular, its unlikely that anyone would eat it and therefore it may be extinct, why dont we make it trendy to eat endangered animals, causing big multinational companys to invest in their breeding, causing a huge population surge, problem solved
i understand the thing about endangered animals, and im certain that in 99% of situations i wouldnt eat meat from one, but if its already dead then i would feel that in some ways i had betrayed the animal by not eating it, that sounds sick, but also rational
there are lots of things i wouldn't eat because they don't taste good, but there is nothing i wouldn't eat for ethical reasons.
Thats sort of my point. If you raise an animal to be eaten its not the same as raising an animal to be a friend, killing it, then eating it.tomtom94 said:
...depends
If I got to choose a meat, and then someone went out, killed that animal and cooked it, I think I'd go queasy with anything beyond the normal Cow/Sheep/Chicken sorta stuff
If, however, I was at some wierd hypothetical uber-banquet where it was all already dead, I reckon I'd try everything
Except Dog and Cat, because I love Dogs too much and I hate Cats too much
If I got to choose a meat, and then someone went out, killed that animal and cooked it, I think I'd go queasy with anything beyond the normal Cow/Sheep/Chicken sorta stuff
If, however, I was at some wierd hypothetical uber-banquet where it was all already dead, I reckon I'd try everything
Except Dog and Cat, because I love Dogs too much and I hate Cats too much
