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Re:Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Lon... by dao- on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:57AM (#20174875)
Avoiding unnecessary suffering is sometimes used as the basis for whole ethics systems. It's inherently good and doesn't need to be deduced from anything.
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Re:Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Lon... by coldtea on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:34AM (#20175258)
Well, who calls what's "unnecessary"?

Killing animals for their meat is not like torturing animals for no reason (which indeed would be unnecessary).

And how steep would the slope be? E.g. what about killing rodents and house pests?

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