Quote Originally Posted by Burtsplurt View Post
The people I do feel superior to are the people who justify meat-eating to themselves (much in the same way that I justify eating fish to myself). The people who have raised the question with themselves. They obviously have some idea that keeping animals in a restricted environment and then killing them is Not A Good Thing, but then they choose to ignore it. I don't think that's right.
I can respect this at the personal level, but beyond that, no. I know what kind of conditions some animals live in and how they're killed, and I believe that to be "not a good thing", but I don't know if it's wrong because I'm honestly not well enough educated in the subject. However, I still choose to eat meat despite this knowledge and enjoy it. By your standards that makes you a better person than me, at least in some regard, but universally it doesn't. If I was a thief or a murderer then you would be, but here there's really no basis for such an argument.