Can you make a sound, MORAL/ETHICAL argument for NOT being Vegan?
Even if you think you would or could never be a vegan...can you make an ethical argument against the idea that anyone who has the means to be vegan SHOULD be vegan?
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Nope. When pushing to make everyone vegan, it's important to note that it simply isn't possible for everyone, whether it is due to physical issues or budgetary restrictions. But that's just for that movement. You already limited the question to those who have the means. Then the only argument against it may be taste preference, which I would consider fair, but I can't think of any ethical argument to encourage people to eat meat against their preference.
[quote]Then the only argument against it may be taste preference, which I would consider fair[/quote]
How is it a fair and ethical argument that you prefer the taste of animal flesh to not torturing animals? Can you elaborate?
[quote] but I can't think of any ethical argument to encourage people to eat meat against their preference.[/quote]
Isn't making it clear that liking the way an animal's body tastes is not a morally sound reason to cause suffering a good encouragement? Isn't showing baby chicks being fed into a grinder or pigs thrashing around in a gas chamber representative of an ethical argument which can encourage people that their preference for the taste of flesh is not a morally defensible reason to keep eating animals? I'm not saying that will work in all or even most cases but it certainly seems to be a viable avenue of argumentation .
@Pikachu the taste preference is in my opinion a fair argument against veganism (or more accurately: for omnivorism) because we don't only eat to survive, but also to bring pleasure into our life. I didn't say that was an ethical argument and don't think it is.
The way meat is produced is certainly an ethical argument against eating meat, but that wasn't your question. You asked about ethical arguments against avoiding meat and I can't think of any in that category.
