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Can animal lovers be meat eaters?
You definitely can be an animal lover and eat meat with cognitive dissonance (e.g. separating that an animal had to die for a meal that temporarily satisfies you while you could have eaten something without meat in it that you would have enjoyed as well).
Can a non vegetarian be a animal lover?
If you think about it, if you love amimals, you can’t be a non-vegetarian and if you loe plants, you can’t be a vegetarian either or the worst case scenario you love nature, you can’t eat or even breathe anything. So being an animal lover and a non-vegetarian is not hypocrisy but it is just a way of life.
Can a non-vegetarian love animals?
Can non vegetarian be animal lovers?
Do vegetarians fear being judged by non-vegans?
They found that those who had thought about being judged by vegetarians first, tended to associate vegetarians more strongly with negative words. In fact, Monin says this fear of reproach is so potent, vegetarians are likely to be more threatened by vegans than non-vegetarians are.
Does veganism reduce animal suffering?
If we cannot calculate welfare tradeoffs in situations like these with some certainty, then any argument for veganism built on the foundation of reducing animal suffering crumbles, as such a goal would be completely ineffective in guiding our actions.
Why would Someone Like Piper protect non-human animals?
First is the matter of why people tend to nurture members of other species in a manner resembling the way we nurture our own children. There’s also the matter of why someone like Piper would adopt a moral stance that involves protecting non-human animals.
Is it strange for a non-human species to eat meat?
Sure; such a motivation might be intuitively understood when it happens to be people doing it, but the same cannot be said of non-human species. That is, it would appear to be particularly strange if you found, say, a lion that simply refused to eat meat on moral grounds.