I don't blog much anymore, but I have blogged about this topic in the past, so I feel that I owe it to my readers to keep them updated. I had gone back to eating meat, and have been for some time, but, recently, I had an experience where the McRib was in its "farewell tour" at McDonald's, and I bought a McRib, and, while eating the McRib, I started thinking about whether the pig I was eating had been tortured or abused while in captivity prior to slaughter, and that ruined the whole experience of eating meat for me, and I couldn't even finish the sandwich, I had to throw half of it out, and I have not eaten meat since. And the only reason to eat meat is that you enjoy eating meat, and it isn't fun for my anymore, so I expect not to eat meat again.
The good news is that now I can be a good Jew, since now I can avoid pork and bacon and not mix meat and milk. I've been eating a lot of salad and rice and beans.
I do hate that so many philosophy professors today who specialize in ethics have made veganism their "thing," their focus, because that is so easy, that is such a simple topic to tackle, you don't deserve a university chair if that is the extent of your reach as an ethicist. But so many of them are today, and I don't like it, even though I agree with their basic premises about it. Obviously, it's logical to be a vegetarian, the only problem is that for most people eating meat is so much fun.
