Eating Meat Is Inhumane Case Study

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Eating Meat is Inhumane
Introduction
Recently, vegetarianism has become popular since people started to question about how we treat cage animals and how factory farming is not sustainable in the long term. In the right of the animals Tom Reagan takes a stand on right’s view. He believes in the total abolition of the use of animas for any sort of purposes. In his view, treating animals more humanely does not justify killing animals. It does not consider how animals are treated since it is thought that the amount of pain animals has to experience does not matter. He states that “the fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources” (1983). Alastair Norcross comes up with the case of Fred who abused puppies for his …show more content…

First, it should be noted that there is nothing wrong with eating animals as the act does not necessary offend animals’ right. It is possible to take meat from dead animals and eat it. In this case, the act does not offend the animal’s right to life since the animal has already dead. This essay only focuses on morality of eating animals results from killing them. Also, it means that not only eating animals should be permissible but also any acts that involves killing of animal is fundamentally wrong. Humans and animals share a lot of similarities. We are both sentient being. They have ability to feel pain and have emotions like humans. Thus, the pain animals feel is not distinct from pain humans feel. However, the current system does not treat animals as sentient-being but rather seen as a property which does not feel anything and have no right for respectful treatment. In addition, it should be addressed that guaranteeing animal right do not mean that they should be treated like humans but they should be given consideration like humans. Animals deserve to choose how they live and have right to not put in cage and killed by

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