PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Eating Animals, If And Only If
Lecture 5/16:
• Argument from necessity/survival/history
o B1*- eating meat could be necessary for someone’s survival
o B2*- if something could be necessary for someone’s survival, then it is morally
acceptable for you to do it
o B3*- so it is morally acceptable for you to eat meat
• Argument from necessity/health
o C1- eating meat is necessary for healthy diet with enough protein
o C2- if something is necessary for healthy diet with enough protein, then it is
morally acceptable for you to do it
o C3- so it is morally acceptable for you to eat meat
• Argument from naturalness
o D1- other animals eat meat
o D2- if other animals do something, then it’s morally acceptable for you to do it
o D3- so it’s morally acceptable for you to eat meat
o E1- humans are naturally capable of eating meat
▪ E1*- humans find it natural to eat meat
o E2- if humans are naturally capable of doing something, then it’s morally
acceptable
▪ E2*- if humans find it natural to do something, then it is morally
acceptable for you to do it
o E3- so it is morally acceptable for you to eat meat
• Eating animals: Part 2- Arguments against
• Intensive confinement
• Mutilation
• Slaughter
• The argument
o A1- what fred did is immoral
o A2- there is no morally significant difference between what fred did and you
eating factory farmed meat
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