Ask yourself, if every life that has been lost for our hunger is morally taken, what about the lives these creatures were they allowed to have led before the slaughter?
If you're content with those circumstances, then ask, how can we be content with the lives lost that end up being wasted and have no benefit to either the one eating, or the one dying?
We should make every effort to place these lives upon the altar, if they are to be sacrificed, so that we do not lose what they've given. If not how can we ever be forgiven?
"I estimate that about 32 billion pounds of saleable meat
came from the approximately 40 billion pounds of carcasses.
Assuming microbiological spoilage at packing plants to be
. 025%, one pound per 4,000 pounds finished product, there
would be 8,000,000 pounds lost to spoilage."
- Blaine B. Breidenstein
“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”
“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”
― Plutarch
For further consideration:
For further consideration:
Note: I eat meat, but I try to eat less than I used to, and I admire vegetarians who can remain true to their views. I've spent over 2 years in my life as a vegetarian and found it difficult to adhere to.
