Animal Suffering Cruelty Meat Protesting 
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 6, 2009
As I have suggested above, vegetarianism may have a protest or symbolic function. Nevertheless there is, as far as I can determine, no moral duty not to eat meat, and one who eats meat is not thereby committing any moral error. Second, suppose that there is no moral obligation to so protest or commit onself [ sic ].
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
Consequently, one ought not to eat meat until actual practice is changed. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. The question that must be raised, however, is how the conclusion not to eat meat follows from this.
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