It's time to stop killing meat and start growing it.
Animals are smart, so they deserve the right to live, so we ought to grow meat instead of killing animals for it, or so recommends this Slate piece. And unlike other meat-eaters who feel the need to go by ad hominems and simple dismissals, I don’t think the idea is so stupid. I’m not, nor do I have any plans of becoming a vegetarian, but that doesn’t mean I can’t see the point vegetarians make: why do we give rights to humans but not (conscious) animals, except rampant speciesism? Peter Singer is fond of saying that human babies are no more conscious than cows. If that’s the case, why should babies live and cows shouldn’t?
Needless to say, these concerns haven’t transformed me into a treehugging veggie and they don’t keep me awake at night. Yet I still find value in discussing them.
