Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat
Nick Zangwill
Jun 14, 2021
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: Eating meat is morally good and our duty when it benefits domesticated animals and is part of a practice that has benefited them historically, but not for nondomesticated animals.
Abstract
Abstract I argue that eating meat is morally good and our duty when it is part of a practice that has benefited animals. The existence of domesticated animals depends on the practice of eating them, and the meat-eating practice benefits animals of that kind if they have good lives. The argument is not consequentialist but historical, and it does not apply to nondomesticated animals. I refine the argument and consider objections.
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