[imgabe]

> Most don't agree with because for many it's part of their identity, it's what they grew up eating every day with their parents. To find their way of life being classified as unethical is jarring to say the least, so they put up a barrier to doing so.

When you make up a reason for someone to believe something, sure it's easy to argue against it. Many people balk at finding eating meat unethical because it simply isn't. There is no consistent system of ethics that finds it unethical.

Deciding that some forms of life are "conscious" and should be protected and other forms of life are not is completely arbitrary. Living things consume other living things to survive. Surviving is not unethical, or if it is your system of ethics is self-defeating and will lead to your own extinction, which makes it useless.

[ramraj07]

Can you cite a single acceptable literary citation that says eating meat is not unethical? What's acceptable? Probably not a blog post, ideally a work by an academic philosopher. Something in between can be murky for sure.

[imgabe]

If you're going to go by whatever "academic philosophers"[1] say instead of thinking for yourself, I really don't know what to tell you.

[1] By and large, over-privileged people who've never done anything useful in their lives. It's easy to preach to people about what they should eat when you've always had plenty of food.

[ramraj07]

Oh I think for myself first. Also I'll show myself out given its clear what type of person I'm talking to.