Is it bad to eat meat?
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Eating meat is bad.
Eating factory-farmed meat is bad, but eating non-factory-farmed meat is not bad.
Eating meat is not bad, even if it comes from a factory farm.
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Vegetarianism and veganism are on the rise in the US and presumably much of the rest of the developed world.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/3747206-vegetarianism-is-on-the-rise-especially-the-part-time-kind/
A 2013 paper found that 60% of ethicists thought that eating mammal meat was bad.
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/PowerReason-130204.pdf
Nevertheless, an overwhelming majority of the population seems to have no qualms about eating meat. What do Manifolders think?
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