Minimalizacja cierpienia zwierząt a wegetarianizm [Minimisation of animal suffering and vegetarianism]

Abstract

The article is a reductio ad absurdum of assumptions which are shared by a largenumber of followers of the animal welfare movement and utilitarianism. I arguethat even if we accept the main ethical arguments for a negative moral assessmentof eating meat we should not promote vegetarianism but rather beefism (eating onlymeat from beef cattle). I also argue that some forms of vegetarianism, i.e. ichtivegetarianism,can be much more morally worse than normal meat diet. In order to justifythese thesis I show that there are significant moral differences in the consumptionof animal products from different species.

Keywords

• welfarism
• animal suffering
• veganism
• beefism
• vegetarianism
• Peter Singer
• environmental ethics
• utilitarianism