Q&A: Vegetarianism and Morality
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Vegetarianism and Morality
Question
Hello Rabbi,
I saw that your position is that it is not morally right to consume meat from farms where the conditions for the animals are unreasonable, and that even from places where the animals have good conditions, there is still some virtue in refraining from it.
What is the meaning of this virtue?
That is, is it because it is not morally right to take the lives of animals for the sake of eating because of some moral intuition? Or for other reasons?
Thanks in any case.
Answer
Taking life, even that of animals, is something that it is proper to avoid. Not like human beings, of course, but still.