In Singer and Masons “Ethics and Animals”, being a vegetarian an ethical requirement? This thought is absurd. There are so many reasons why this is completely impossible. Average Americans simply cannot afford fruits and vegetables. There are so many amino acids, vitamins and protein that can only be gotten from animal meat. Also is it unethical to take away our choice to live the way we want to live. My coworker is a vegetarian, and his main argument he makes is the treatment of the animals. How the conditions are horrendous and I’m sure he’s not alone. But when you think about cage free and big box house chickens. The reason cage free are so expensive is because they feed them special food and let them run around. Now you can’t possibly
