Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
I am an avid meat-lover but it does play on my conscience that I am in fact eating a former sentient being and potentially contributing to environmental devastation.<p>I would appreciate answers to the following two, albeit simplistic questions that always plaque me when I consider stopping eating meat products:<p>1) Is it really unethical to eat animals when the natural trajectory of most animals lives was likely to be eaten by other animals or die some horrendous death in their natural environment? Isn&#x27;t it better for an animal to live its best life on a free range farm being grass fed, then get quickly and humanely slaughtered?<p>2)If I made a personal decision to stop eating meat, would there be any significant impact at all on the overall environment realistically? For example, I recently watched the documentary Seaspiracy which showed the negative effects of commercial fishing. However, the reality is that me (not) eating a bowl of sashimi once a week makes no difference in the context of, say, countries like Japan slaughtering millions of fish daily (regardless of any change in behavior on my part or my small circle of influence)?