What animals are morally wrong to eat?

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Vaporak said:
I try to not eat animals that have shown signs that they are self aware, or ones that play an important part in ecosystems and are endangered. Other than that I don't really see the difference between eating an animal and a plant.
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So you basically just eat insects and plants?
 
mantidor said:
are dolphins really tasty? it doesn't seem like it.
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I don't know. It's one of my favorite quotes from the X-Files. ;)

AShep said:
I don't quite understand this post. Is it aimed at me?

Are you saying that animals are being slaughtered immorally regardless of me being a vegan? If so, do you understand how supply and demand works? A minute difference is a difference nonetheless.

As to your second point, of course I support the moral treatment of animals.
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Yeah, it was in response to you. I'm not attacking your beliefs in any way; I fully understand the difference and the importance of following your beliefs instead of thinking them and then resigning yourself to a cynical "everyone else does it so why shouldn't I" or lame "one person won't make a difference" mindset. I said it's symbolic because it supports your beliefs more than it supports the moral treatment of animals meant for consumption. In no way am I saying you should stop nor am I taking a wholly pragmatic stance against you.

You imply that you take no or much less offense to actually eating an animal. What you said is your issue is how they're treated before they're consumed. (You didn't say whether you would eat meat if the animals were treated well before slaughter.)

But, are you supporting the alternative to what you oppose? Would it better for you to support verifiable sources of morally/ethically treated animals to create a larger market for those? As it stands, your inactivity in this market should do nothing to support the process of morally treating animals meant for consumption.

I posed that as question in my previous post because I have no insight to the farming industry. edit: to be clear I'm asking if this stance carries weight. I think it would be better to support it, in some way--not necessarily buying and consuming the meat if you oppose the consumption as well.
 
Dolphins/Apes. The later because they're very close to human and I'm heard you can get some nasty diseases from eating them. Dolphins because it's questionable whether or not they're actually intelligent in the same sense as us.

Also human, I've heard you can get some nasty, nasty diseases from eating people.
 
The endangered ones are the morally wrong ones.

That's the only objectively true answer. Everything else is just a subjective function of local customs and cultures.
 
Depends on who/what's doing the eating and why. People shouldn't eat people, but you'd be hard-pressed to pass judgment on a shark for eating someone, or a group of plane crash survivors with no food except for some corpses.
 
Anything sapient or endangered I'd say.

Fyi, if you're answering sentient then you're suggesting basically any animal.

BrokenEchelon said:
Is there a detrimental health effect to cannibalism or is it just a moral taboo?
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It'd probably fuck you up psychologically but it wouldn't make you sick.
 
There is also something morally wrong with wasting, one thing is to eat shark, another is to fish the shark, rip its fin away and left the animal to bleed to death. Also unnecessary suffering.
 
Lonely1 said:
No animal.

BTW, why do vegan don't eat insects?
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Insect are animals, unless you think they are plants?

My rule of thumb is to eat dumb herbivores that convert grass and seed into meat. I say no to predators. I try not to eat anything intelligent, but make exceptions for yummy bacon.
 
Well, I'd agree endangered species are right off the list.

Otherwise...

I actually would veto dogs, because humans have bred and domesticated the canine to be a companion and worker. I think the effort and connection there should be respected. Same thing with the domestic cat.

I also would veto eating other animals that display very high level functioning and indications of the onset of human-like sapience - whales, dolphin, the great apes.

But then, herbivorous "prey" animals are already the ones that, to be fair to evolution, tend to be walking meatlockers. Even if some people do have a pet pig.
 
I'll eat any sort of meat. I love veal and love lamb. Veal osobucco is amazing. I would probably try dog too if given the chance.

That being said, I wouldn't eat something like shark fin soup because the process of getting the shark fin is so wasteful.

No dolphins or whales either. Not sure why. I love dolphins and whales though.
 
I'd list:

1. Animals intelligent enough to have family, and have lasting emotional consequences from the removal of family members.
2. Endangered animals.


1 covers humans, and perhaps other creatures like baboons.


BrokenEchelon said:
Is there a detrimental health effect to cannibalism or is it just a moral taboo?
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edgefusion said:
It'd probably fuck you up psychologically but it wouldn't make you sick.
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Jesus Christ. Look up Kuru and prions. Eating other humans can make you VERY physically ill.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002355/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030411071024.htm
 
I don't need to eat any of them to survive, hence it's immoral for me to do so. I'm only doing it for personal enjoyment at the cost of other life.

By itself it wouldn't be enough of a reason to keep me from doing so though, I find most acts immoral if I think about them too much. Can't loose sleep over every little thing you do.
 
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none. there is absolutely no reason to eat pork but not dog, for example, or beef but not horse. endangered animals are an exception, though i guess that's not really what the OP was asking.

i'm an ex-vegetarian, and taking a step back from the entire culture of meat-eating shows you how hypocritical it all is. now that i'm back on eating meat, i've made my decision that i'm okay fuelling my body with dead animals, and as such the only reason not to eat dog or whatever would be that i'm unconvinced by the flavour. if someone i trust tells me it's great? why not.
 
345triangle said:
none. there is absolutely no reason to eat pork but not dog, for example, or beef but not horse.

i'm an ex-vegetarian, and taking a step back from the entire culture of meat-eating shows you how hypocritical it all is. now that i'm back on eating meat, i've made my decision that i'm okay fuelling my body with dead animals, and as such the only reason not to eat dog or whatever would be that i'm unconvinced by the flavour. if someone i trust tells me it's great? why not.
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Would you eat your neighbors pet if he gave it to you?
 
345triangle said:
none. there is absolutely no reason to eat pork but not dog, for example, or beef but not horse. endangered animals are an exception, though i guess that's not really what the OP was asking.

i'm an ex-vegetarian, and taking a step back from the entire culture of meat-eating shows you how hypocritical it all is. now that i'm back on eating meat, i've made my decision that i'm okay fuelling my body with dead animals, and as such the only reason not to eat dog or whatever would be that i'm unconvinced by the flavour. if someone i trust tells me it's great? why not.
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Well horses and dogs were not bred for meat, but companionship. So there are differences between them and say... a cow.

And what about endangered animals or humans?
 
Bulbo Urethral Baggins said:
Would you eat your neighbors pet if he gave it to you?
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gave it to me as a living animal? obviously not — i don't have any idea how to skin a cat, much less prepare and eat it.

if i went to el bulli and it said "my neighbour's cat" on the menu, however, and i knew the cat had been donated for that reason? sure, i'd give it a go.

CornBurrito said:
Well horses and dogs were not bred for meat, but companionship. So there are differences between them and say... a cow.
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that's an absurdly artificial distinction, not to mention relative. i live in japan, tons of people eat horses here. dogs are eaten in many nearby countries.

breeding animals for meat is kind of fucked up, but it's how meat-eaters rationalise what they do.
 
I suppose when you get down to it, it's wrong to kill and eat any animal. But like Louis CK said, I don't care that it's wrong.
 
What if we ate a dog fetus every morning like we ate a chicken fetus? Do you think a cooked dog fetus would taste good?
 
Seems wrong to eat predatory animals. Also seems wrong to eat animals that were bred for human companionship (pet dogs and cats).
 
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