PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intensive Animal Farming, Costco, Dumpster Diving
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), is polluted by the fact that its production and/or distribution involved the harm someone or something in the process. Eating meat is wrong: budolfson argues that this argument isn"t very good, the ethical permissibility of eating meat in general -- budolfson: Singer would argue that by ordering a burger at a restaurant, you are participating in the factory farming process as a consumer. You not ordering the burger makes no difference whatsoever, because regardless, the cow has already been killed: even if you don"t order it, someone else probably will, by ordering the burger, then, you are not harming the animal. Walmart only sells 450 steaks and throws away the rest: walmart does not want to risk underbuying steaks and potentially missing out on profits; therefore, they overbuy. Consumption to voting: according to budolfson, some people just hate talking about.
