Arguments Against The Meat Industry

The idea that eating meat is a controversial topic for people. Some people think that there is nothing against it but others feel that it is something that should be completely avoided. Something that a lot of people from both sides agree on is that the meat industry is not what it should be and that there are a lot of things that need fixed. This is something that a lot of Ethicists agree on and even Kant for example can even have it looked at in several different ways with his different ideas. While a quick once over won’t leave you with the idea that Kant would be against the meat industry- it also doesn’t help that it wasn’t the same for him in his time- because most of his ethics deals with people and only people and the way that they deal with one another. But when you start looking at it closer it can be said that the meat industry is doing this to better people and thus are using them as a means to an end, which is something that Kant talks about a lot. Most people say that if we are going to do this we are going to use them as a means to our end we should at least not use them …show more content…
Often times they are not really seen or even considered when it comes to this sort of thing. In the ideals of today it really isn’t something that is often thought of- most people just go about their day without ever thinking about the people who are raising and then killing the animals that are going on their table. But this could be another means to an end. Because they are being treated as subhuman. No one really calls in the issues that are being dealt on these people. Since this is very much is factory work the conditions are probably not the best. Often times the reason that we tend to not think about or question the idea of these people is because there is often a calling about things like this and that there are often a feeling of using these people, it is something similar to what Kant would say is using them as an