The ethics of eating animals

Paul and Danica discuss the ethics behind hunting and eating animals. Paul explains his personal experience with hunting, and why he believes the benefits of eating animals go far beyond nutrition.

[brett]

I’m from south Louisiana and I can tell you. people who hunt and fish do more for wildlife conservation and land management in one year than a vegan will do in a lifetime

[BrandonTorres]

This was a great conversation! I completely agree and can relate to how I felt when we ate a cow in Mexico that was part of my family’s farm. The connection makes eating more important.

[leah__gail]

Absolutely 💯❤️ Gratitude 🙏 I told my boys growing up, “Never kill an animal you don’t plan on eating.”

[alphacause]

If going plant based made you ethical, it is certainly not demonstrated by their behavior towards others. I have encountered many people who are vegetarians or vegans, some of whom I count as my friends. None of them demonstrate any behavioral trait that would make them the moral superiors of omnivores. They are no more kind to their fellow man, generous, honest, self-sacrificial, loving, compassionate or loyal.

[ChristianHiroseRomeoGraham]

Vegans: "Save the animals"
Carnivores: "Save the animals by saving humans' health first"

[SpenceTex]

Hey Doc, when you drink blood is it cooked? If so how do you prepare it?

[yesumirembe]

Hi sorry but have a question I always see about cows but what about goats? Is goat meat/organs better than cows meat/organs or not please tell us about the difference between cows vs goats

[marcusryder]

You are lying to yourself if you think that you need to eat animals to be your best-self. You don’t.

[cameronbethea]

If an animal is given a high quality life, and then killed humanely its ethical because:

1. The life of an animal humanely raised in captivity is much less stressful than its wild counterpart, it lives and dies much more peacefully, instead of being torn apart balls first by wolves while still alive, a cow is killed by an instant bolt to the head.

2. All life has a cost, you could argue that we could just breed animals and let them live their entire lifespans without killing them, or we could simply stop breeding them entirely, but why would we sacrifice land, water, and other resources etc to raise animals without eating them ? Who would pay for this ?

if we didn’t breed livestock animals for food, how would they exist ?

3. Since all life has a cost, and animals can be raised humanely without suffering in a way that is superior to what they could have in nature, it is better that these animals exist than not exist, since some limited amount good life and a painless death is better than no life at all, or a bad life full of suffering and a horrible death, and the only way these animals can co exist with humans in appreciable numbers is through animal agriculture.

We don’t live in a perfect world, there are only so many resources to go around, and only so many lives that can exist at a time.

Raising animals humanely and ethically for food is morally acceptable if done properly, because they get to have some quality life, at the cost of being preyed upon humanely by a far more merciful predator than wild carnivores.

This argument obviously doesn’t apply to factory farmed animals living in stressful conditions or animals slaughtered inhumanely ofc.

*edit if factory farms improved their standards, and you could ensure that animal welfare was superior to natural conditions on all factory farms, even by a little, then it would be fine by this logic.

Large scale animal agriculture practices will definitely be improved, its just a matter of time. More people are aware of its issues than ever. Choosing to eat the more expensive meat from humanely raised animals (even if you need to buy less) will put pressure on large scale factory farms to improve their standards.

[nickwojtow]

Just made a fresh batch of my meat paste!!! 100% grass fed raw beef heart and liver liquefied in a blender with some salt and melted grass fed butter. Put them in ice trays and freeze. Take a couple out and defrost and pop them. Awesome healthy!

[steveboone]

Regarding the POV that hunting/sourcing your own meat brings out the 'best' version of yourself to 'give back' yourself to society is not necessarily the best argument for maintaining an omnivore way of life. This still provides a 'get out' clause for so many 'non ethical' omnivores and overshadows perfectly comparable vegan objectives more so. We need to explore the ways society can adapt or at least attempt to adapt to create awareness in recognising the the brutality of the meat industry as opposed to 'living off the land'. Sadly this id something that in today's world is only possible based on location, opportunity and circumstances!

[steveboone]

I am an omnivore but my girlfriend is a recent vegan. She constantly 'guilt trips' me with injustice articles and clips from social media, and I am very much aware of the cruelty that is attached to this. I did raise a legitimate argument with her that made her very frustrated and angry. I said that humans are not the only omnivores on the planet i/e bears, pigs, foxes, wolves etc. I said these animals hunt and kill prey but also eat vegetation but this is considered natural, so why would a human who does the same (hunting their own game....not buying mass slaughtered and tortured animals) offend your moral standards? Her reply don't know what you're talking about and as a human we have a moral duty to protect all animals as we are more intelligent . I just said-that is not addressing the argument though! ANY THOUGHTS???

[lovemonster]

Never seen you with a top on before 😂😂

[flameguy]

It's unethical to not contribute to the food chain, if spiders felt bad about eating flies the world would be swarmed.

[beneagle]

Tom Brown, "Tracker" and "The Search". Two of the best books for a young kid 👍👍

[The-next-realm]

Getting David icke vibes re: holographic World, and perception etc. Great to hear more open minded perceptive people out there

[Reppintimefitness]

I do a well balanced diet
With all
4 food groups

[g.t.]

Unrelated question:
Does fruit and honey raise lipids/triglycerides?

[alphacause]

If I had any control over our national curriculum I would make hunting, or having to slaughter an animal on a farm, just as much a part of our science curriculum as dissecting a frog has been common place in high school biology.

[virusmyth]

I've seen on a previous video that you recommended coconut water, or at least said its "ok"
I've also seen sources stating that coconut water contains 300+mg oxalates per 100ml, so drinking a typical amount of coconut water, a whole coconut's worth of water would mean something between 1000 to 2000mg of oxalate in one go, while some figures in the field (sally k norton) recommend not going much above 50mg per day, specially for people with kidney problems or sensitivity to oxalate which does not seem to be my case. I never had problems with coconut water as far as I know, but what are your thoughts on that?

Thank you.