The Morality of Vegetarianism

Lately, aside from any healthful effects of vegetarianism, there has been a movement maintaining that vegetarianism is moral, carnivorism is immoral. Well. Let’s take a look at vegetarianism.

These new moral veggies maintain that the greatest peoples of the Earth did not eat meat, that the great civilizations were vegetarians. This is specious. Of course the great civilizers were meat eaters. . .first, then vegetarians in some instances. In India, vegetarianism is prescribed by religion. Buddhists don’t eat meat because they originally come from a Hindu background--Shakyamuni--and they were outcasts living in the woods where there was a plethora of vegetable matter but not much in the way of meat--that could be eaten. In China and Japan, vegetarianism (in particular, barley and millet) was for the poorer sort, the peasant-farmers; the aristocracy ate meat and the merchant class indulged in meat when they got the money. The ancient Greeks referred to the Chinese they met along the southern coast as “radish eaters.” Surely not by choice! There is nothing inherently good or moral in this vegetarian diet.

In the modern times, it is a choice. We have a choice to our diet. Of course, if we make that choice because we don’t want to kill things--life--then we are as hypocritical as the great modern evangelists and theocracy-minded that flood America with pabulum, platitudes and propaganda while they engage in adultery, child pornography, sexual perversions/predation. . . . In order to eat a vegetable, you have to kill it. You have to chop it off at or pull it up by the roots. Watch it wilt without its life-blood. That’s not killing?

To maintain vegetarianism is moral because of the way we raise and slaughter our other food source is to engage in the same kind of selective blindness and repression of the horrors of modern civilization (that don’t have to be) that currently hold sway in America. You know, if we don’t see it and if we don’t aid it (by eating the products, i.e. meat), then we’re good. Talk about ethical ambivalence! What about doing something about the horror?!

What a lot of hogwash is this belief that vegetarianism is moral.

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