sentient
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 11:56 pm
So I keep running into an intellectual problem. It comes from no desire to consume any one product but more of a consistent morality question.
1. I work in a retail grocery store in the US. sometimes I have to go to the back of the fish section and see live crabs and lobsters in the back. I would be lying if I said I don't feel mortified by seeing these creatures bubbling at the mouth in boxes and clamoring around. Is this feeling justified? Are these animals sentient? Forget, for a moment, the environmental impact, is there a justification for not comsuming them.
2. bugs. While I don't care about honey, and find nothing lacking in a diet that does not consume products from bugs/insects, I have a hard time justifying that I don't consume these products. That being said I don't like the idea of killing or harming these creatures for kicks. Anyway, In the interest of learning, is there something you find compelling about not consuming these products? from the studies I have read I am confused as to whether or not these creatures writhe because of programmed reaction similar to plants, or if they have every right to life as any other creature.
1. I work in a retail grocery store in the US. sometimes I have to go to the back of the fish section and see live crabs and lobsters in the back. I would be lying if I said I don't feel mortified by seeing these creatures bubbling at the mouth in boxes and clamoring around. Is this feeling justified? Are these animals sentient? Forget, for a moment, the environmental impact, is there a justification for not comsuming them.
2. bugs. While I don't care about honey, and find nothing lacking in a diet that does not consume products from bugs/insects, I have a hard time justifying that I don't consume these products. That being said I don't like the idea of killing or harming these creatures for kicks. Anyway, In the interest of learning, is there something you find compelling about not consuming these products? from the studies I have read I am confused as to whether or not these creatures writhe because of programmed reaction similar to plants, or if they have every right to life as any other creature.