# Is there any moral defense for eating meat in modern first-world countries?

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**Created:** [January 15, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-moral-defense-for-eating-meat-in-modern-first-world-countries/930637 "2021-01-15T23:19:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-moral-defense-for-eating-meat-in-modern-first-world-countries/930637/112 "2021-01-17T01:46:24Z")

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**Warning** for **FigNorton** , 2 weeks ago you were warned for insulting posters.

> [@FigNorton](#):
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> Your rather ugly defensiveness is even worse in that case.

Do you think this sentence is OK?

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