Not seeing the moral imperative is not the same as there not being a moral imperative. The attitude that motivated your comment is astonishingly cruel.
I think there's a moral imperative not to kill animals for food that are above a certain level of intelligence; we can use intelligence level as a proxy for capability for suffering.
To take an example ranking of potential food animals: fish, chickens, cows, pigs, great apes, humans.
There's a question about where you draw the line, but most people agree there is one. Few people think it's OK to eat chimps.
It's not clear on this hierarchy where octopuses fit in.
onethought|2 years ago
chimprich|2 years ago
To take an example ranking of potential food animals: fish, chickens, cows, pigs, great apes, humans.
There's a question about where you draw the line, but most people agree there is one. Few people think it's OK to eat chimps.
It's not clear on this hierarchy where octopuses fit in.