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Originally Posted by driveway
Do you see the tenuousness of the argument from morality when it comes to vegan/vegetarianism? If you make the choice, make it for personal reasons, or dietary reasons, but don't pretend that it's the 'moral' choice, because that is utterly subjective.
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Simply put, if I look at the environmental degradation coupled with the suffering that growth-hormone riddled cows go through or worse, veal calves, I think it most certainly is a moral issue.
And of course we have removed ourselves from natural law. The ability to reason has done that. If we were to follow natural law, we would still enslave people, we'd eat our young, we'd commit all sorts of unspeakable crimes... but we've used our ability to reason, our ability to measure good vs evil, compassion vs suffering... to move beyond doing whatever is natural.
Now you may DISAGREE with the logic used, you may DISAGREE with a belief system, but to suggest that vegetarianism is not a moral choice is beyond the heights of hubris.