98.3% of egg laying hens and 99% of meat chickens are factory farmed and even for that 1.7% of egg laying hens that are not factory farmed the male chicks are still usually macerated alive at one day old.
https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estimates
If you don’t want those then please stop buying it to align your actions with your morals.
There is probably cases where you could try to morally justify anything (like in a survival situation I guess?) but I personally would try to abstain from killing under any circumstance.
The morals around eating animals are luckily not that vague. You do not need animal products to live (say all major dietician organizations) so the only reasons people are eating meat is out of habit or for taste. And pleasure does not justify killing a sentient being.
Intention is what you’re looking for. It is immoral to intentionally kill someone.
All life gets eaten by something eventually, so consumption itself can’t be immoral.
Yeah we are not talking about the consumption part, we are talking about the killing part. If you find a dead squirrel or deer, it’s not immoral to eat them. Ending someone’s life against their will is though, it doesn’t really matter what your intentions are.
The “nothing goes to waste” argument just ignores the victims life though. They did not want to die.
Also seems like a pretty easy solution then to just eat the killed bird and bing bang bosh: cock fighting is morally justified.
I am serious. I know that it is extremely cruel and I agree with you. I just think it’s weird that people are only selectively outraged with this and not with the animal cruelty that happens to the chickens that are for eating.
For example if I had to choose between being a male chick born in the egg industry or in the cock fighting business I would probably choose the fighting since I would rather fight for my life than be put in a blender alive? Maybe that’s not a common opinion and people think that’s more humane than fighting.
I don’t get how there is outrage about chickens fighting when basically all bars serve dead chickens?
You’re not a baby cow
Man they lived in bigger homes than I do now
Taking food when you have no food
They don’t need to eat meat (according to all major dietician organizations). Since it is not out of necessity, it is for pleasure, same as watching animals fight.