I'm vegetarian, and I'm not morally opposed to eating road-kill.
I see fresh dead pheasants almost everyday by the side of the road (strangely they're never there the following day, so I don't think they go to waste, but whether it's humans or foxes, I don't know), and I've often considered stopping and taking one home.
But, as I've been a vegetarian for so long, I'm just not that bothered any more.
Anyway. If I did, what kind of a vegetarian would I be?
Is there a category for vegetarians who eat road kill?
Originally posted by VargThe category is 'opportunist vegetarians.'
I'm vegetarian, and I'm not morally opposed to eating road-kill.
I see fresh dead pheasants almost everyday by the side of the road (strangely they're never there the following day, so I don't think they go to waste, but whether it's humans or foxes, I don't know), and I've often considered stopping and taking one home.
But, as I've been a vegetarian ...[text shortened]... d, what kind of a vegetarian would I be?
Is there a category for vegetarians who eat road kill?
What if it was a dead human?
Some vegetarians object from the moral compulsion that it is wrong to eat meat, regardless of how we come to be in possession of the meat.
I remember having to do an essay on this on a political theory course:
Is Regan right to argue that we are morally obligated to become vegetarians?
Interesting topic, all about competing moral obligations and the testament to the strength of a moral theory is its ability to handle seemingly incommensurable obligations.
I would argue, trying not to be long-winded [honest], that if you are starving or have no other means of gaining substinence (you do look quite thin on the RHP faces site) then you can override your moral vegetarian obligations. Otherwise I don't believe it is right, for someone who chooses vegetarianism on a moral basis, to eat the pheasant.
What if the dead pheasants were being deliberately placed there by a pheasant farmer who was trying to spur on a new gastronomic craze?
What if they were being left by your parents who were worried that you weren't eating right, who understood your moral standpoint, and knew this was the only way you would eat meat?
This is quite facetious I know, but I am sure there are countless other examples.
Originally posted by Varginteresting. Although I'd probably laugh if I saw someone stop their car and get out to scrape roadkill off the lanes... but that's not the point, is it.
I'm vegetarian, and I'm not morally opposed to eating road-kill.
I see fresh dead pheasants almost everyday by the side of the road (strangely they're never there the following day, so I don't think they go to waste, but whether it's humans or foxes, I don't know), and I've often considered stopping and taking one home.
But, as I've been a vegetarian ...[text shortened]... d, what kind of a vegetarian would I be?
Is there a category for vegetarians who eat road kill?
I don't really see any reason why you shouldn't, since it's dead already and it wasn't killed for you.
I know I wouldn't (and not only because it's got little bits of gravel stuck to it), but I'm not a vegetarian out of moral reasons... I just can't stand the taste, and the knowledge that there's something... dead... in my mouth.
But hey, eat whatever you like 😉
My Uncle has just been ordered by his GP to start eating meat after 20 years as a vegetarian....
He always went by the code that he wouldn't eat anything that had a face.......
I too was told that being a vegetarian was bad for my health by my GP, but that might be because I only like broccoli, potatoes and carrots.........