Assignment problem: Discuss the moral implications of eating nonhuman animals.
1. Is it morally permissible to raise and kill animals to eat them in our society, where nutritious alternatives to animal foods are readily available?
2. If we were somewhere where there were inadequate non-animal foods, would that make a difference to the morality of using animals for food?
3. Does animals have rights and humans have a moral obligation to uphold those rights, or is it the case that animals do not have rights but that humans have a moral obligation not to treat animals cruelly? Explain your answer.
4. Which ethical theory (utilitarian, virtue ethics, Kantian, etc.) is most consistent with your outlook on consuming animals?
Please provide both in-text citations and post-text references. A cited source is required for this discussion.