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by mat2427 on September 17th, 2008

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If you are a vegetarian due to animal cruelty would you start eating meat if the animals told you that they want to be eaten?

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  • by iwnit on October 9th, 2008

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    probably not.

    "In his collection of thought experiments, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, philosopher Julian Baggini includes the following excerpt from Douglas Adam's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

    After forty years of vegetarianism, Max Berger was about to sit down to a feast of pork sausages, crispy bacon and pan-fried chicken breast. Max had always missed the taste of meat, but his principles were stronger than his culinary cravings. But now he was able to eat meat with a clear conscience.
    The sausages and bacon had come from a pig called Priscilla he had met the week before. The pig had been genetically engineered to be able to speak and, more importantly, to want to be eaten. Ending up on a human table was Priscilla's lifetime ambition and she woke up on the day of her slaughter with a keen sense of anticipation. She had told all of this to Max just before rushing off to the comfortable and humane slaughterhouse. Having heard her story, Max thought it would be disrespectful not to eat her.

    The chicken had come from a genetically modified bird which had been 'decerebrated'. In other words, it lived the life of a vegetable, with no awareness of self, environment, pain or pleasure. Killing it was therefore no more barbarous than uprooting a carrot.

    Yes as the plate was place before him, Max felt a twinge of nausea. Was this just a reflex reaction, caused by a lifetime of vegetarianism? Or was it the physical sign of justifiable distress? Collecting himself, he picked up his knife and fork..."
    Source and further information:
    http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2007/04/the-pig-that-wa.html

    Further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Baggini
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams


    A pig that wants to be eaten
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1nxaQhsaaw

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