Eating meat is ethical because meat/dairy is the primary source of B12. You’ll literally die without it. You can technically get B12 from, like, seaweed, but that’s not easily and readily available. Mammals are.
I’m never going to agree that it is unethical to consume animals because humans would not be here if we did not consume animals. Animal consumption wasn’t some accident in human history I need to feel bad about. It wasn’t an unethical choice. It’s the result of evolution. This angle of veganism will never work on me. But I can be convinced to consume less meat and support better farming methods.
This is what happens when your culture doesn’t consume any animal products:
Eating meat is ethical because meat/dairy is the primary source of B12. You’ll literally die without it. You can technically get B12 from, like, seaweed, but that’s not easily and readily available. Mammals are.
I’m never going to agree that it is unethical to consume animals because humans would not be here if we did not consume animals. Animal consumption wasn’t some accident in human history I need to feel bad about. It wasn’t an unethical choice. It’s the result of evolution. This angle of veganism will never work on me. But I can be convinced to consume less meat and support better farming methods.
This is what happens when your culture doesn’t consume any animal products:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6540890/
It does feel like the opportunity to maintain a diet deemed ethical to oneself is a considerable luxury of our age, not a sustainable human condition.
Mammals are not a source of b12. They get it from their diets. In cows it is artificially supplemented.