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CMV: I should start eating meat again

I've been vegan for about a year. But recently I've changed my moral beliefs from deontological to utilitarian. My love for animals hasn't changed but now, instead of wanting them to have the same rights as humans (e.g. the right to life) and believing that we don't have the right to farm them, I think my moral goals should instead be to maximize the happiness-to-suffering ratio of farm animals.

Because of this, I am considering eating meat again. Ending farming won't actually make farm animals any happier. All the suffering that's come before will still have happened, and there'll be no more happiness to make up for it. I don't think we should stop breeding farm animals (although for the environment we should reduce it). Instead I think the goal should be to move to more ethical farming, so that farm animals can be as happy as possible.

I might soon give up veganism and start occasionally eating meat from ethical farmers. I'm going to be very careful in my farmer-screening-process. I want to only encourage farming that will result in the average happiness-to-suffering ratio of farm animals going up. The animals shouldn't be killed at a young age, because that would mean they don't have time to experience enough happiness to make their slaughter worth it. They should be free range - ACTUALLY free range, not the government's dumb minimum free range criteria. They should lead happy lives. They should be treated kindly by the farmer. Nothing cruel should ever be done to them. They shouldn't have to travel long distances to reach their place of slaughter. The slaughter itself should be stress free - they shouldn't have to see another animal die ahead of them, and they should either be killed with a quick and pain free method or stunned into unconsciousness beforehand. The animal breed shouldn't be one that has been bred to grow in an extremely fast manner that puts stress on the animal's body. I intend to get in contact with any farmer I am considering purchasing meat from to make sure their farming practices fit with my idea of what is ethical.

I'm not going to be one of those ethical omnivores who pats themselves on the back for buying pasture-raised steak and then goes and buys lollies full of gelatin from factory farmed animals. I don't want to support ANY unethical farming practises in ANY way. I'm still going to be just as strict about reading ingredients and avoiding gelatin, milk powder, whey, and any other trace amounts of animal products. Literally the only animal products in my diet will be the occasional, maybe once a week, carefully selected piece of meat from an ethical breeder.

But I am worried that I'm about to make a very big mistake. It still feels so wrong, to eat an animal, to pay a farmer to kill one of the sweet innocent beings I love so much. Logically, it seems right, but emotionally, it seems wrong. So change my view! If I'm about to do something wrong, I want to be talked out of it.
gpt
You shouldn’t start eating again, simply by virtue of the fact that by far, the meat industry is one of, if not the biggest contributors of greenhouse gasses.

Between cow farts, and all the resources that are dumped into creating feed for animals farmed for their meat, eating meat is one of the worst things you can do for the environment and climate change.