Responsibility To Animals
Responsibility to Animals
Dayna Begonia
PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Instructor: Whitney Easton
March 30, 2015
Some people say eating meats is wrong, other’s say it natural.
There are many types of religious groups that forbid their people to consume meat and other living products. Religions such as, Hindu, Muslims, Judaism, Navajo Indians, and Seventh Day Adventisit forbid meat and other living products from their diet.
There are many people who say eating is meat is human nature, it’s the circle of life. According to Wringham, (2012) “He suggests convincingly that consuming calorie-dense food (attainable only by cooking it) grew our brains, gave our ancestors the health needed to spread their genes, and socialized us (cooking food required cooperation, which led to small societies that could organize and protect themselves). Meat was a main source of this calorie-dense food.”
In this essay we will look at both views ethical and non-ethical reasoning. We will take a look at some of the issues on What is wrong with killing animals? And Culture/religions who eat meat.
Philosopher Frances Kamm, Univeristy of Harvard believes that ethics is “how we are to live, how we are ought to act.” If people where born into a family that supports eating meats and vegetables the outcome would be that it would be ethical for the family to each meat, and see it as human nature. Ruhlman said, “ to eat humanely raised and slaughtered animals is not only ethical, it’s important to our humanity. I don’t argue against vegetarianism, and do believe that our diets should be composed mainly of plants, as Michael Pollan rightly simplifies it. I don’t believe anyone has the right to tell anyone else what they’re allowed to eat” Ruhlman, (2014). I do believe that meat should be eaten as a way to survive is morally and ethically acceptable, while contributing to torture of killing animals for personal pleasure is immorally and unethical.
As for religious and or
Dayna Begonia
PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Instructor: Whitney Easton
March 30, 2015
Some people say eating meats is wrong, other’s say it natural.
There are many types of religious groups that forbid their people to consume meat and other living products. Religions such as, Hindu, Muslims, Judaism, Navajo Indians, and Seventh Day Adventisit forbid meat and other living products from their diet.
There are many people who say eating is meat is human nature, it’s the circle of life. According to Wringham, (2012) “He suggests convincingly that consuming calorie-dense food (attainable only by cooking it) grew our brains, gave our ancestors the health needed to spread their genes, and socialized us (cooking food required cooperation, which led to small societies that could organize and protect themselves). Meat was a main source of this calorie-dense food.”
In this essay we will look at both views ethical and non-ethical reasoning. We will take a look at some of the issues on What is wrong with killing animals? And Culture/religions who eat meat.
Philosopher Frances Kamm, Univeristy of Harvard believes that ethics is “how we are to live, how we are ought to act.” If people where born into a family that supports eating meats and vegetables the outcome would be that it would be ethical for the family to each meat, and see it as human nature. Ruhlman said, “ to eat humanely raised and slaughtered animals is not only ethical, it’s important to our humanity. I don’t argue against vegetarianism, and do believe that our diets should be composed mainly of plants, as Michael Pollan rightly simplifies it. I don’t believe anyone has the right to tell anyone else what they’re allowed to eat” Ruhlman, (2014). I do believe that meat should be eaten as a way to survive is morally and ethically acceptable, while contributing to torture of killing animals for personal pleasure is immorally and unethical.
As for religious and or