An ethically carnivorous life is possible so long as we ensure the animals we consume bear lived and died without unnecessary sufferingThe western obsession with rights makes it difficult to see their limitations. We speak approximately rights as whether they were the only moral value with meaning,ignoring other important moral values like responsibilities or duties. In fact, responsibilities are the counterparts to rights – you cant bear one without the other. Philosopher Carl Cohen writes that, and “whether animals bear any rights,they must bear the right not to be killed to advance the interest of others.” Another way of putting this is that those who assert the rights of animals are in effect asserting – first and foremost – a right to life for all animals.
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Source: theguardian.com