How do you define intelligence? In any case, I think it’s irrelevant. What’s relevant is whether the beings are self aware or if they exist having notions and concepts of fear of death. For this reason, I deem it unethical to slaughter - for instance - animals in a setting in which their peers are aware of the moment of death of their peers. Seeing, for instance, a cow agonize about their peer in front of them being shot to death is heart-wrenching. For this reason, my answer to your question is “yes”. Yes I eat meat. :3
You got me curious, you seem to feel some way about slaughtering animals, but that doesn’t seem to translate into your actions being aligned with your feelings.
Would you care to talk about it?
I’ll be honest I have reduced my meat/dairy/egg consumption significantly, but every once in a while I’m not the one cooking at home and I don’t really feel able to go on a side quest while hungry.
It’s not that complicated in my case. Ideologically, I want us - humanity - to move toward vegetarianism. First and foremost because of how unethical I find the production of animals, and secondary for the sake of the environment. I’m just too lazy to actually act on this. I had a two year vegetarian streak when I lived in Japan. I ate meat only if and when I ate out, mainly because Japanese restaurants are not quite informed on vegetarianism and seem to believe that the meal is vegetarian as long as it doesn’t consist of a chunk of meat - which is sad, because Japan has a long history of veganism in their various Buddhist offshoots, but that’s another story. At home, I only cooked vegetarian, although not vegan. It was cheap and easy to find meat replacements, mostly soy based.
Funny, I’m somewhat in the opposite position, when I eat out I always order vegan/vegetarian since it’s usually cheaper and doesn’t require any special effort on my part, but when cooking I might still eat animal parts once in a while since I don’t cook only for myself and can’t always cook twice.
How do you define intelligence? In any case, I think it’s irrelevant. What’s relevant is whether the beings are self aware or if they exist having notions and concepts of fear of death. For this reason, I deem it unethical to slaughter - for instance - animals in a setting in which their peers are aware of the moment of death of their peers. Seeing, for instance, a cow agonize about their peer in front of them being shot to death is heart-wrenching. For this reason, my answer to your question is “yes”. Yes I eat meat. :3
You got me curious, you seem to feel some way about slaughtering animals, but that doesn’t seem to translate into your actions being aligned with your feelings.
Would you care to talk about it?
I’ll be honest I have reduced my meat/dairy/egg consumption significantly, but every once in a while I’m not the one cooking at home and I don’t really feel able to go on a side quest while hungry.
It’s not that complicated in my case. Ideologically, I want us - humanity - to move toward vegetarianism. First and foremost because of how unethical I find the production of animals, and secondary for the sake of the environment. I’m just too lazy to actually act on this. I had a two year vegetarian streak when I lived in Japan. I ate meat only if and when I ate out, mainly because Japanese restaurants are not quite informed on vegetarianism and seem to believe that the meal is vegetarian as long as it doesn’t consist of a chunk of meat - which is sad, because Japan has a long history of veganism in their various Buddhist offshoots, but that’s another story. At home, I only cooked vegetarian, although not vegan. It was cheap and easy to find meat replacements, mostly soy based.
Funny, I’m somewhat in the opposite position, when I eat out I always order vegan/vegetarian since it’s usually cheaper and doesn’t require any special effort on my part, but when cooking I might still eat animal parts once in a while since I don’t cook only for myself and can’t always cook twice.