Animals Should Get the Same Treatment as Humans

In today’s day and age, meat is one of the most common portions of a human meal. According to the Census statistics from 2009 and 2010, United States is amongst the leading meat producing as well as meat consuming countries in the world, especially in beef and chicken.1 On the contrary, there is no census on human meat because no one consumes it. Yet, human meat and horsemeat are the same because it is meat from a body that has the capability of suffering as Singer proposed.

Therefore, in the story of Mad Max, the moral distinction than can be drawn is unjustified for numerous reasons. Peter Singer would agree with me on this matter, as he suggests in his text “The Case for Animal Liberation” that some of modern day tactics that are being used to kill animals cause tremendous amount of pain to non-human animals. These animals are being prisoned and tortured while in process of being prepared as meals for humans. Others assert there to be nothing wrong with meat consumption, mainly because they do not understand the pain the animal goes through. Yet, as stated earlier, these animals do go through cruelty and suffering.

Would any human be ready to go through the same suffering and pain? Would any human be ready to see a sledgehammer coming to thrust their throat? Would any human be ready to die knowing they will be eaten for pleasure? I can almost certainly guarantee that the answers to these questions will always be NO. In the story of Mad Max we see that Pig Killer had died willing because he was tired of his life and wanted to have some meaning. We can draw from the story that consuming of human animals is not viewed as moral because Max did not eat the human flesh but chose to eat the horsemeat. If humans are not ready to giv...

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...bout considerations. To these arguments of Singer, Cohen had nothing to say but just state that these claims are offensive. I strongly believe in the arguments stressed by Singer, and I support his thinking in that animals should get equal consideration because certain rights that matter to us do matter to them as well. In the story of Mad Max, we can conclude that the choice that Mad Max made by not eating human meat and instead choosing the Dink Dog Food was unjustified because eating horsemeat in my eyes equal to eating human meat because animals are robbed of the rights the they deserve.

Works Cited

Singer, Peter. “The Case of Animal Liberation.” In Philosophy: The Quest for Truth, 8th edition,edited by Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn (New York: Oxford

University Press 2012),

Reference:http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1377.pdf