Actually, uncooked & unseasoned meat does not naturally taste good to humans. We cook our meat to make it chewable and we season it to make it palatable, and then we become physiologically addicted to it, which makes it seem as though it “tastes good”.  In reality, meat is objectively repulsive to humans, which is why we all naturally feel sorrow when we see an injured animal, and why we all naturally feel disgust when we see a dead one.

And even if meat does somehow taste good to you, the fact remains that no amount of personal pleasure can ever justify the taking of another being’s life. Indeed, saying “animals are yummy” as a justification for killing them is on par with a rapist claiming that rape is OK because it feels good, or the child abuser claiming that child abuse is OK because it makes her feel empowered.

My Friends, it requires more than mere sensory pleasure to redeem our behaviors. If we humans are going to claim to be stewards of the Earth — or if we are going to claim to be in any way “better than” or “superior to” the animals with whom we share this planet — then we simply have to start acting like it.

Current status of this Myth: Castigated
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE

Filed under: Minimizing the Myths of Meat by Scaughdt