Vegetarian Ethics by Eugene Khutoryansky

The purpose of this web page is to answer the most commonly asked questions about animal rights and vegetarian ethics.
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1 Haven't humans eaten meat ever since they walked the Earth?
2 Isn't eating meat a part of our cultural heritage?
3 Don't the majority of people think there is nothing morally wrong with eating meat?
4 When we eat meat, we are not breaking any laws.
5 Meat tastes too good to become a vegetarian.
6 Why is it wrong to eat meat?
7 What about situations where humans need to eat meat to survive?
8 If everyone becomes a vegetarian, then what will we do with all the farm animals?
9 If everyone becomes a vegetarian, won't this create economic hardship for those who depend on animal
10 Aren't the animals already dead when we purchase meat in a grocery store?
11 What about eating road kill?
12 What if humans treat and slaughter the animals humanely?
13 Do you want to make eating meat illegal?
14 What is meant by the term rights?
15 Where do rights come from?
16 How can animals have rights?
17 Don't only humans have the ability to use tools?
18 Why should we behave better towards animals than they do towards each other?
19 Why do we have a moral obligation to animals who do not understand moral concepts?
20 What do we gain by respecting the rights of other animals if they do not respect our rights?
21 Don't only humans have the ability to enter social contracts?
22 Don't only humans understand the concept of death?
23 How is experimenting on animals any different from other situations where humans kill animals for su
24 Aren't there laws regulating the use of animals in laboratories?
25 What do animal rights activists think about abortion?
26 Shouldn't we focus on solving human problems before worrying about animals?
27 Isn't it wrong for vegetarians to act as if they are better than others and try to convert people?
28 Aren't animals also killed during the harvesting of crops and the construction of roads?
29 What if the cure to cancer could be produced by a hypothetical experiment on just a single animal?
30 Do AR supporters refrain from using life saving drugs which were developed through animal testing?
31 What are the alternatives to testing on animals?
32 What if you were in a burning building and could only save your child or your dog?
33 Aren't there some religions which believe that plants possess a soul?
34 Don't plants move their leaves to follow the sun?
35 Is it ok to kill animals which do not possess consciousness?
36 Where in the animal kingdom does consciousness begin?
37 How do you know that other animals can feel pain?
38 Don't only humans have the ability to pass on cultural information from one generation to the next?
39 Aren't only humans self aware?
40 Don't only humans have the ability to use language and understand abstract concepts?
41 Isn't it insulting and inaccurate to compare human beings with animals?
42 If we didn't raise animals for food, then they would never have had the chance to be born and experi
43 What would you do if we hypothetically discovered that plants do indeed feel pain?
44 How do you know that plants can not feel pain?
45 What about killing plants?
46 Can't all insect behavior be predicted by a predetermined algorithm, no different than a computer pr
47 Don't insects only behave on an instinctual level?
48 Do you view the killing of an insect as the moral equivalent of killing a bird or mammal?
49 What do you do when a colony of insects infests your home?
50 What about insects?
51 How can some animal rights activists believe that other animals are our equals?
52 Doesn't duty to our own kind come first?
53 What evidence is there that other animals can make moral decisions?
54 Don't only human beings have a soul?
55 If God did not want us to eat meat, then why did he place animals on the Earth?
56 Doesn't the Bible specifically state that it is ok to kill animals for food?
57 Doesn't the Bible say that humans have dominion over the animals?
58 Isn't hunting by humans necessary to prevent deer overpopulation?
59 How common is cannibalism in the animal kingdom?
60 Should we try to prevent other animals from killing and eating each other?
61 What do you think about the phrase "survival of the fittest"?
62 Human beings are a part of the food chain, and eating meat is natural.
63 What about how other animals kill and eat each other?