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Ethicists Aren't Ethical: Or, Why Sin is In

Eating meat is likely the most immoral thing any of us do.  Animals are sentient beings.  They feel pain.  They feel fear.  The animals we eat are tortured hourly until slaughtered.  I've never met a person who researched factory farming conditions who would argue that eating meat is moral.  Meet Your Meat. Yet almost all of us eat meat: [We] surveyed several hundred philosophers and non-philosophers on their opinions about various moral issues; we also asked survey respondents to describe their own behavior on those same issues. ? The biggest divergences in moral opinion concerned our question about ?regularly eating the meat of mammals such as beef and pork?. 60% of ethics professor respondents rated mammal-meat consumption as morally bad, compared to 45% of non-ethicist philosophers and just 19% of non-philosophers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).