Is Eating Meat Morally Wrong?

This is a complex topic, but i will try to summarise my opinion in the following paragraphs:

Most people don't really know how animals are treated in slaughters. It is so incorporated in our culture, that some people have never wondered if it is right to kill the animals and eat them. It's true that eating animals is completely natural, and wild animals kill each other in order to survive. But the problem comes when we make them suffer before we kill them. Our brains are much more developed than the brains from the rest of the animals. This doesn't make us better, nor give us the right to abuse them. But we have the capacity to think and to reason. We can use this for our welfare and for the welfare of other creatures.

It's completely unnecessary for our survival to keep millions of animals in slaughters, in pitiful conditions, and kill them painfully, to then eat them. Human beings can live without meat, and actually is healthier to have a balanced nutrition without meat than to include it in our diet. So i personally think that if humans stopped eating meat, the life of almost every living being on earth would improve.

Besides of the terrible suffering of animals, eating meat also involves feeding the cattle, and that means, among other things, spending loads of water and polluting the environment.

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