Animals, Evil, and Family Meals

Abstract

Debate rages over the morality of eating meat – such debate often stems from conflicting (or apathetic) consideration over the internet moral worth of non-human animals. Living in the modern age gives rise to a couple moral conundrums: it can be argued that, given the widespread availability of a variety of foods, the consumption of meat is unnecessary, especially given the fraught debate. Also, eating specifically factory-farmed meat makes one complicit in greater social evils. Rubio offers as a viable moral option “less meat” – rather than none at all – within the context of family. This moral stance – flexitarianism – takes into account the conflicting interests of a human’s need to provide for himself and others dependent on him/he and moral imperatives written into creation by God.