DEUTSCHHelmut Bartussek
Eating meat is ethically justifiable if…
From the ethical viewpoint of ultimate ends each human can rightly renounce the use of animals. However, the ethical vegetarism does not take fully into account the safe food for children, sick persons and pregnant women and cannot answer questions concerning social policy, urbanisation and ecology raised by complete meat abstinence.
Hence, from an ethical viewpoint of consequences, we can rightly decide to eat meat. Christian ethics does not imply a general intediction of meat consumption. The presence of animals kept caringly and appropriately and killed free of fear and pain can constitute a positive value in itself by increasing the happiness experienced by sentient beings im the world which would not be possible without animal husbandry. This sounds to be a utopian goal, but ethics often calls on future understanding.
