Comment on Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad

• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so?

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  • NeuralNerd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The question was “why is eating meat bad?”, my answer is something like “because to have meat you must harm animals”, and someone answered that “we always harm something when we eat” and my answer is “no, there are foods that you can’t harm because they are not sentient”.

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      first, you can’t prove plants aren’t sentient. second even if you could, why should sentience matter? what ethical system even accounts for sentience as a factor of right behavior?

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      • NeuralNerd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        you can’t prove plants aren’t sentient.

        And you can’t prove something is sentient. But scientists have criteria that help determine whether a species is sentient. See this review for example.

        even if you could, why should sentience matter?

        I already answered. If something can’t be harmed there no need to prevent harming it.

        what ethical system even accounts for sentience as a factor of right behavior?

        About all animal welfare:

        Respect for animal welfare is often based on the belief that nonhuman animals are sentient and that consideration should be given to their well-being or suffering, especially when they are under the care of humans.[4]

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      • max@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Even if plants were sentient, and I’m not saying they are, but if. Would you rather “kill” orders of magnitude more plants to feed them to animals, then kill the animals and eat them, or would you kill the plants and eat them directly? One of them causes a lot less harm (if any at all), and it’s not eating the animals.

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