Moral Reasons for Individuals in High-Income Countries to Limit Beef Consumption.

ABSTRACT: This paper argues that individuals in many high-income countries typically have moral reasons to limit their beef consumption and consume plant-based protein instead, given the negative effects of beef production and consumption. Beef production is a significant source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts, high levels of beef consumption are associated with health risks, and some cattle production systems raise animal welfare concerns. These negative effects matter, from a variety of moral perspectives, and give us collective moral reasons to reduce beef production and consumption. But, as some ethicists have argued, we cannot draw a straight line from the ethics of production to the ethics of consumption: even if a production system is morally impermiss

SUBMITTER: Barnhill A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9205278 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature