lemm.ee

-7 points

2 months ago

Honestly what makes it ethical to do this to plants? I am curious where exactly you draw the line. Is there any animal that is ok to kill, is there any non-animal it’s not ok to kill?

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Emerald@lemmy.world

2 points

2 months ago

Plants aren’t sentient. Animals are

Is there any animal that is ok to kill

Mosquitoes, ticks, bugs that try to steal/destroy your crops, rat infestations

is there any non-animal it’s not ok to kill?

I mean yeah. You shouldn’t walk into a national park and burn down the prarie. But that’s for conservation reasons, not because the plant is sentient (its not)

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0 points

2 months ago

Those things you are still ok killing are sentient still, is part of your hangup with the animals being raised? Like is hunting more ethical to raising livestock in your opinion.

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Emerald@lemmy.world

1 point

2 months ago

Those things you are still ok killing are sentient still

The difference is that mosquitoes, ticks, and infestations are harming us. Pigs on the other hand are innocent and we simply breed them and slaughter them for greed.

Like is hunting more ethical to raising livestock in your opinion.

I guess you could argue that, but I oppose hunting as well.

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2 points

2 months ago

How about raising crickets or insects for food? I am guessing against because it follows the sentient plus raised to kill.

Chicken raised for laying eggs are not in bests of conditions so I would assume that is unethical to you and a no go. But what about honey? I would by no means consider honeybee conditions unethical. But interested in if you think so.

Feral hog would be the best thing I can thing of where it’s something that is a pest that is not too far out of a usual diet. So is that something available to your diet?

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Emerald@lemmy.world

1 point

2 months ago

How about raising crickets or insects for food? I am guessing against because it follows the sentient plus raised to kill.

Correct.

what about honey? I would by no means consider honeybee conditions unethical. But interested in if you think so.

Even if its not unethical conditions, it is still exploitation of the honeybees. Also, honeybees take resources away from native bee populations. Therefore honeybees are harmful to the environment.

Feral hog would be the best thing I can thing of where it’s something that is a pest that is not too far out of a usual diet. So is that something available to your diet?

No I would not be okay with eating a feral hog. Just as I would not be okay with eating rats, mosquitoes, and ticks. It’s exploitation that isn’t necessary (unless you’re stranded on a deserted island or something). Also feral hogs aren’t really pests. They won’t infest your home and would only be an issue to you if they tried to attack you.

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1 point

2 months ago

My wife is a PhD candidate studying honeybees so I trust her when I asked the question and the effects of honeybees on the environment are a tradeoff like everything in the world is but generally positive.

To mirror the honey bee conversation, soybeans replace native prarie lands throughout the Midwest. Soybeans hurt the environment so therefor they should not be supported. But to support our population we need massive food production. So it’s just not reasonable to avoid.

A massive population is really the root cause of almost all environmental issues imo. We have to blow so many things up to a high scale to support it and a self regulating population does not have the tools and responsibility for the massive reduction impact that is needed. Real change comes from an institutional level.

To the point of feral hogs at one point you mentioned the destruction of agriculture, I guess I was leaving the assumption open that feral hogs were destroying crops as the reason for the killings not them just being feral. I guess I am mainly raising the question of if your morals ever involve eating meat if it is killed under your ethical compass or if you consider the eating portion unethical in itself.

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