Stop eating meat Urgent Ethics, College Assignment Help

Stop buying factory-farmed meat

Defend the rights of animals

All of these

Hunting animals

Eating animals

Experimenting on animals

All of these

Neglecting your pets

Eating animals

Experimenting on animals

None of these

We should not be unnecessarily cruel to animals

If you are cruel to animals, you will be cruel to people.

Animals are our instruments

All of these

Calls for alternatives to factory farmed meat

Defends the rights of animals

Defends speciesism

None of these

They can suffer and enjoy life

They have reason and emotion

They are subjects of a life—what happens to them matters to them

They are capable of caring for their young

We are permitted to perform medical experiments on animals because they cannot feel pain to the same degree that humans can

We are sometimes permitted to perform medical experiments on animals

We are obligated to perform medical experiments on animals, whatever it takes

We are obligated to perform medical experiments on animals but not unnecessarily harm them

Domestication is mutually beneficial.

Animals’ interests should be considered equally.

Animals, like humans, have rights.

Meat from family farms is morally OK to eat.

We cannot justify eating factory-farmed meat because the suffering of the animals outweighs the pleasure of the persons eating them.

We can justify eating factory-farmed meat; although the animals suffer, it is significantly different from human suffering (and, so, is counted differently)

We cannot justify eating meat because animals have rights

We can justify factory farming provided we are not talking about mammals.