Is Vegetarianism logically inconsistent?

[Lupine Lacuna]

I am a vegan, for a very simple reason.

1. Animals are not property and we have no right to subordinate and dominate for our own ends.

Therefore, I refuse to eat eggs and dairy since the latter involves life long enslavement and the former involves killing every male chick (approx half of all chicks).

Therefore I dont see how anyone can be a vegetarian for ethical reasons.

I'm interested to see how all your vegetarians out there view it, why are you a vegetarian?

Thanks

 

[Lupine Lacuna]

Not one person has really addressed my question.

I am not interested here in the pros and cons of meat eating (though I highly encourage viewing the film 'Earthlings' which is available on their website online, and also a trailer), my question is instead to vegetarians who chose not to eat meat because they believe you should not kill animals, and to ask, why do you eat eggs and diary (since both involve killing).

 

[Lupine Lacuna]

Do you have or have you ever had any pets?

We have a pet house rabbit, which we got from a sanctuary. The poor thing has been, as people often do, released into the wild, since many people assume they came from the wild and can look after themselves (which is fundamentally wrong!) and it was found, dying and bleeding in someones back garden.

For the record, I am against pets of all kind.

 

[Lupine Lacuna]

We most certainly have the right to use animals for our own ends. Evolution and the food chain says so. To think otherwise is to demonstrate your naivety. Animals may be cute and cuddly but at the end of the day they are property for mankind because they are not evolved to the degree that we are and thus cannot complain about it.

This is the way of the world and always will be.

On that basis anything weaker we should be allowed to dominate, which based on the human paradigm, is clearly false.

 

[Lupine Lacuna]

In case anyone is interested in how producing eggs kills a lot of animals it is because all male chicks that are born in the process are killed immediately. Its sad and upsetting to watch; they are slowly gassed.

I am not sure of the reasons exactly for why they are not later used for meat but I think it is probably related to the idea that egg producers and meat producers are not the same peolpe and that the cost of a meat producer to buy a male chick from an egg producer is presumably in excess of the cost to create their own.

 

[Lupine Lacuna]

LawfordLass - this refers to the process of creating your female chicks in the first place, a process for which male chicks are not necessary and indeed an overhead.