If animals can't give informed consent to have sex. then isn't meat immoral?

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Normal people do not think about this.

Maybe it's time they do.

Butthurt!

Yes, you constantly are in addition to being drunk all the time.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
Yes, you constantly are in addition to being drunk all the time.

Get a life.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
Get a life.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Normal people do not think about this.

If you think this is bad, you haven't read a lot of MrMind or Stiltman's posts. 🙂

Originally posted by Klaw
Disclaimer: I'm an omnivore.

Bestiality is a human having sex with an animal.

It's immoral because sex requires informed consent between both parties (otherwise it's rape).

And animals cannot give informed consent.

Now on to the topic of meat.

We kill animals and eat them.

But why is that not immoral?

If animals can't give informed consent to have sex, it follows logically that they can't give informed consent to be eaten.

If animals don't have rights, then it's okay to have sex with them.

But they do have rights, that's why we don't allow bestiality.

Animals are sentient beings, similar to humans.

Hell, chimpanzees share almost 99% of our DNA and have other mannerisms that are similar to us.

Source.

So why is it okay to kill animals and eat them but not use them for sex?

This is just something I've been thinking about for a while.

And I'd like to see any solutions to the problem.

But people can't give their consent to be eaten upon death either AFAIK, so that would also make having sex with another human immoral by that logic.

Originally posted by samhain
But people can't give their consent to be eaten upon death either AFAIK, so that would also make having sex with another human immoral by that logic.

A dead human, yes.