# I guess I \_do\_ cause animal deaths when I eat pre-killed meat.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 24, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-i-_do_-cause-animal-deaths-when-i-eat-pre-killed-meat/718450 "2015-04-24T16:02:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-i-_do_-cause-animal-deaths-when-i-eat-pre-killed-meat/718450/88 "2015-04-26T13:25:54Z")

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Lemme just clarify something, as it may be necessary to do so.

_Never have I ever_ thought “As long as I didn’t kill a cow myself, it is definitely okay for me to eat hamburgers.”

This thread was _not_ started in order to (even implicitly) repudiate that view, because I never _held_ that view.  
Rather, what I have thought is “I never killed a cow, but still, eating meat is ethically complicated at least.”

And I do repudiate that view. I still think eating meat is ethically complicated, but I now think that I _have_ killed a cow.

I find it hard to believe there aren’t a bunch of people out there like me who falsely believe they never killed a cow. Hence, I posted.

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