Paradox Of Eating Meat

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Some if not all of the meat eater had some form of morals or emotional concerns towards the animals that they are consuming. This led to the paradox of eating meat because some or most people felt emotions such as pity, sympathy, guilty, sad, and disgust towards the animals that they are eating. Even when they felt emotions for certain animals, people still ate it. The article elaborated on this meat paradox controversy, and it focused on the aspects to support why people eat meat. The article connected how people’s rating of animals’ pain related to people’s decisions to whether they eat meat or not eat meat. People’s rating of animals’ pain also related to their moral concerns for that animals. People would more likely rate the animals which …show more content…

This article was explaining the reasons behind why people think that eating meat is alright. It was kind of supporting my action therefore my thoughts about eating meat still remain the same. I’m going to continue eating meat even after reading this article. The article does have some arguments as to why vegetarians don’t eat meat. Reasons that people decided not to eat meat included moral responsibilities and concerns for every animals. Another reason included meat being disgusting because it could contain pathogens that made people sick. These reasoning prompted me to consider becoming a vegetarians however I know that I can’t become a vegetarian. It was in my nature to eat meat. Since I can’t became vegetarians, I was planning to reduce my meat intake a little. Instead of eating pigs, beefs, fishes, and turkeys, I planned to just eat chicken for now on. For each meal, I planned to just have less meat than I would usually eat. Because I cooked my own meals most of the time, I could change the amount of chicken meat I put into my meal. For example instead of cooking a whole chicken, I could use three fourth of the whole

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