See this discussion of my own meat-eating. My conclusion was that there is not much of a rational basis for deciding one way or the other—my attempts to use rationality broke down.
I think you should go out and get yourself something deliciously meaty, while still being mostly vegetarian. “Fair weather vegetarianism”. Unless you don’t actually like the taste of meat. That’s ok. There’s also an issue of convenience. You could begin the slippery slope of drinking chicken broth soup and Thai food with lots of fish sauce.
We exist in an immoral system and there isn’t much to do about it. Being a vegetarian for reasons of animal suffering is symbolic. If we truly cared about the holocaust of animal suffering, we would be waging a guerrilla war against factory farms.
In this case, other people seem to have concluded that the value of not eating a piece of an animal is in the long run equal to that much animal not suffering/dying. So I know the difference one person could make and it seems too small to be worth the hassle of not eating meat that other people prepare for me, and not worth the inconvenience of not getting the most delicious item on the menu at restaurants.
See this discussion of my own meat-eating. My conclusion was that there is not much of a rational basis for deciding one way or the other—my attempts to use rationality broke down.
I think you should go out and get yourself something deliciously meaty, while still being mostly vegetarian. “Fair weather vegetarianism”. Unless you don’t actually like the taste of meat. That’s ok. There’s also an issue of convenience. You could begin the slippery slope of drinking chicken broth soup and Thai food with lots of fish sauce.
We exist in an immoral system and there isn’t much to do about it. Being a vegetarian for reasons of animal suffering is symbolic. If we truly cared about the holocaust of animal suffering, we would be waging a guerrilla war against factory farms.
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In this case, other people seem to have concluded that the value of not eating a piece of an animal is in the long run equal to that much animal not suffering/dying. So I know the difference one person could make and it seems too small to be worth the hassle of not eating meat that other people prepare for me, and not worth the inconvenience of not getting the most delicious item on the menu at restaurants.