@Dutchess_III Sorry, of all things, I had to step out for lunch. I think we’re in agreement that vegetarianism is not an equally, or even a, moral question across the board. And as a choice, in the sense the OP’s question regards it, I’m not convinced in general that it is evolved, only different. However I don’t believe it to be devoid of moral choice or aspect, particularly as one advances into greater affluence, and I think the decisions made at the extremes say a lot our moral character as individuals and a society. As to what I would do, I’m not a vegetarian so that’s easy I’d feed them whatever was handy but even then there are likely exclusions. Beyond that, into more extreme territory, I don’t know, but today I believe there are lines that shouldn’t be crossed. To what ends would I hold true to those beliefs, I really can only guess.
@tom_g alleviating suffering, there are a lot of aspects to that but just for sake of off-point discussion, absolutely. Interestingly that’s one of the better “moral” arguments I’ve heard for vegetarianism. I can’t say I’m up on the science behind it or where the argument is now, but the basics as I recall were that we as a world society spend enormous food calories and arable land on raising livestock that, in disproportionately large part, only benefit the top end of society. Rather than continuing to excessively invest resources as such it should be the obligation of society to better use those calories to the benefit of the greatest numbers, particularly when so many are comparatively lacking in basic nutrition. Thus making adopted vegetarianism by those with sufficient availability to choose the morally “better” option. And at the very least, calling for society to make an “evolved moral” choice, and modify its practices when it comes to farmed animal protein.
@Coloma at least you’re enjoying your Wheaties; I think my cats eat enough grass to be metaphorically taking food out of some poor cow’s mouth, of course they just throw it up on the carpet because apparently tossing it up on the easy to clean wood just isn’t how such things are done.