Raising and slaughtering your own animals, or hunting wild ones yourself is much more humane/natural than industrial level farms and slaughterhouses. You don't eat animals that just "die".
I'm not saying that to argue anything, I eat meat like most people, it's just how I see it.
I totally agree that we have an awful problem with inhumane treatment of animals at factory farms in our society, but the logical answer to that is absolutely not veganism.
Why not? Why not both? As it is, there are huge powerful interests that drive factory farming are preventing much movement in the right direction on farms. In the meantime abstaining from meat is a fine option, especially since it is also healthy.
Veganism, specifically, is only a logical solution to the purported problem that killing animals for their meat, or getting any other animal product by any means, is unethical.
Personally, while I can see some logic in the claim that killing animals for their meat is unethical (I disagree with it, but see where it's coming from), I find the claims that milk, eggs, and wool are unethical to be highly questionable, at best, and the claims that honey is unethical to be truly absurd.
However, meanwhile, you can still stop eating meat, and save a few animals form their miserable torture and death.
Is it possible that evolutionary consuming meat gives you an advantage?
If, one day, we are in a position where we can make that choice, then that will be a relevant moral question to decide.
For example, the argument that killing animals for food is immoral. If that’s true then nature is immoral. Perhaps because humans are uniquely sapient, we can avoid this. But that presumes that humans are uniquely superior to recognize this over all other carnivors.
> But that presumes that humans are uniquely superior to recognize this over all other carnivors [sic].
It doesn't need to involve a value judgment that we are somehow "superior". It just requires recognizing the obvious, that we are indeed uniquely sapient. Furthermore the argument for killing animals is using the flawed appeal to nature, which doesn't work for rape or any other of the countless "natural" activities we overcame with our sapience.
That is just one of the simplest, pragmatic I think, reasons to dispute “all meateating is bad.”
Note, I think we should eat meat in a humane way so actually think this california law is helpful. I just don’t think that all meat eating is bad.
And don't get me started on this law that I have to be clothed.... No other animal is clothed. Maybe humans are the ones who are wrong? Really makes you think.