There is a line of moral thinking which states that agriculture is actually LESS moral than eating meat because of the number of small mammals that get killed by the machines - mice and rabbits and groundhogs and whatnot. Something like 100 per square kilometer of land worked. See: Mrs. Brisby and the Rats of NIMH.
I read an article once that suggested that the MOST moral thing to do would be to eat the biggest creature possible - say, blue whales - to feed the most for the longest with the most minimal loss of life.
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Date: 2007-01-19 01:33 pm (UTC)There is a line of moral thinking which states that agriculture is actually LESS moral than eating meat because of the number of small mammals that get killed by the machines - mice and rabbits and groundhogs and whatnot. Something like 100 per square kilometer of land worked. See: Mrs. Brisby and the Rats of NIMH.
I read an article once that suggested that the MOST moral thing to do would be to eat the biggest creature possible - say, blue whales - to feed the most for the longest with the most minimal loss of life.