I recently started eating meat last week after being a vegetarian for a year. The main reason for this sea change was bacon. One night after a long day of classes and what have you, i could not think of anything else. I lay awake in bed, my loins longing for the sweet embrace of crispy fried strips of pig. The next morning I ate some, and it has been a staple of my diet in the days since.
Ethically, I feel compelled to point out that we are perfectly justified to utilise a pig for the purposes of providing bacon. Utilitarianism, the fact that killing the pig provides a greater good for society at large (bacon). With human beings, even if someone has no worth to society, we tend to keep them alive because they have inherent worth, and can create things like Thriller, Revolver, Purple Rain, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Fargo Rock City...
The most a pig could hope for is for a career in the growth industry of industrialised bacon extraction. A pig is not going to create the complete works of Shakespeare, even if there is an infinite amount of pigs. A pig is not going to create the next Moonwalk or perversely pervasive urban dance hit a la Crank Dat Soulja Boy. Bacon is a marvelous career opportunity to benefit society.
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Ha. Been quite a while. Ran across your blog through facebook. Chalk up another one in the fans-of list. Just wanted to weigh in on the utilitarian argument not working (imho) if you factor in the interests of the animal which are presumably significant since they consist of prevention of mostly tortuous living conditions with the bonus, thank-you-for-playing, prize at the end consisting of death. On the other hand, your loin-satisfied needs combined with the good the Elixir of the Gods post (which otherwise would not have been created) did for me personally seem to balance out the scales so, if need be, keep on eating and keep on writing!
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