It is not necessary, you can live without meat, but hey, we are ornivores, and it's natural to feel inclined to eat meat. I eat meat, I would prefer not to, but well, I am not perfect, I admit I cannot avoid to eat it. However, unless I am in a restaurant, I always look where the meat comes from, assuring it comes from my community where measures in the killing of animals for food are very strict, so they don't suffer. Same goes for eggs, I look at the procedence to know those eggs have been taken from a farm that dosen't have them trapped in cages where they can't move. I find treating animals with cruelty is unethical, but killing them fast for food...I don't believe that to be unethical, it's preety natural after all.Are we debating vegetarianism? I dislike unnecessary harming of animals, but killing animals for the purpose of allowing me to eat them is necessary, in my book.
However, what I don't apreciate is an annoying fundamentalist vegetarian to call me a murderer for eating meat
Anyway, as for the seal massacre, well, I cannot understand what kind of moral values a person who buys fur coats may have. Schopenhauer said a person who is cruel to animals is probably a bad person to people. Well, judging from my experience, thats true. I recommend everyone to visit peta.org, it says quite a few interesting things about fur factories. I love how the maximize benefits while reducing costs includes ignoring any ethical consideration whatsoever.
