What The ‘Meat Paradox’ Reveals About Moral Decision Making
Many people who would strongly disagree, in principle, with animal cruelty also eat meat that has been raised in terrible conditions. When we understand why we eat meat that we know has been raised in poor conditions, we can begin to understand many other forms of behaviour that conflict with deeply held moral principles. According to psychologists Brock Bastian and Steve Loughnan, who do research on the topic in Australia, the “meat paradox” is the “psychological conflict between people’s dietary preference for meat and their moral response to animal suffering”.
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