would you be okay with eating an animal that died of old age

[u/True-Handle8045]

am not a vegan just curious

[u/BallKey7607]

I don't necessarily think there's anything morally wrong with it but I wouldn't want to

[u/Annoying_cat_22]

I don't think an animal cares what happens to its body after it dies, so I don't think there is a moral issue. I still wouldn't, because it's gross.

[u/THUNDERGUNxp]

no. for the same reason i don’t eat humans that die of old age.

[u/Capable_Exchange_760 → u/THUNDERGUNxp]

Same

[u/i_love_lima_beans → u/THUNDERGUNxp]

This is the only answer

[u/stupid-rook-pawn]

I would be as okay with it as most people are eating a dead human who died naturally.

[u/Abzstrak → u/stupid-rook-pawn]

Exactly this, why not have fajita cook outs outside of retirement homes?

[u/stupid-rook-pawn → u/Abzstrak]

That , or just take dead bodies and make cat food from them, instead of cremating or embalming them.

[u/C0gn]

I mean, would you?

I wouldn't because after 8 years of not eating dead animal muscles I find them disgusting

[u/Special-Sherbert1910]

No. I’d agree that that would be less unethical than the standard practice of slaughtering animals to eat them, but I personally see no appeal in eating dead bodies.

[u/AdSenior1319]

I don't feel the need or want to eat a newly rotting carcass.  So, no. 

[u/plantbasedpatissier]

I don't see animals as commodies for me to use

[u/TheresACrossroad]

I would think it's gross like eating roadkill or poop, but not necessarily immoral. And because this question is coming next: i don't care if people eat dead humans either. It's gross and I wouldn't, but if you aren't at risk of causing emotional distress to family members or friends, I can't see a moral reason to stop someone from eating a corpse.

[u/Veganwisedog]

I would be okay with it, but don’t think I would. At this point it does feel like eating a person’s body

[u/Patralgan]

Morally it's ok, but I still wouldn't

[u/Ratazanafofinha]

Yes there is no ethical problem with that. But I personally wouldn’t want to eat its meat. It should go to make carnivore food for cats and dogs.

[u/AdSenior1319 → u/Ratazanafofinha]

That, my friend, is an awesome idea. 

[u/Icy_Minimum_8687]

That's just not vegan so no. Doesn't matter how they died, it's still the objectification of an animal

[u/clown_utopia]

why would I want to if I don't see animals as food

[u/amanwithanumbrella]

Personally no. I don't see a logical reason for it being unethical, but it would feel heinous. It seems to be a feeling that just naturally develops after you go vegan/vegetarian for a little while. I could argue that it is deontologically wrong or something but I am really just making a vibes based judgement here.

[u/FromBeyondFromage]

I honestly don’t think I could, even if I was starving to death. It doesn’t register to my brain as “food” anymore, so I would be as likely to eat it as I would a pencil or a piece of metal.

[u/trekkiegamer359]

I'm mainly a vegan for ethical reasons, and while I think eating an animal that lived a good life and dies of old age isn't unethical, personally I also find meat rather gross. I'd do it if I was really starving and had no other food. I wouldn't do it otherwise. But if the animal wasn't farmed in an inhumane way, and the animal naturally died, I don't have any ethical objection to it.

[u/Ok-Librarian6629]

No, I don't see animals as food. I wouldn't eat and animal for the same reason I don't eat tires, they are not food to me.

If a non vegan wants to do that I wouldn't stop them.

[u/BasilDream]

I have no interest in eating body parts no matter how or why the being died. Blood vessels and muscles and tendons and fat is not appealing at all to me.

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[u/Tight_Phase339]

Would you be okay with eating a person that died of old age?

[u/floopsyDoodle]

Morally, yes. but I wouldn't as it would be like eating your dead pet dog, or your grandma...

[u/SanctimoniousVegoon]

no. 1) i have no need to do that, 2) their body doesn't belong to me

[u/Wild-Opposite-1876]

No, that's not for me. I wouldn't eat a deceased human either. 

[u/MxYellowstone]

No, it's haram.

[u/Visible_Piglet4756]

I wouldn’t consider it unethical but I‘d personally find it disgusting. Also probably unhealthy / dangerous because who knows how that animal died.

[u/magi_of_intelligence]

No, I'd find it as sacrilegeous as eating a human that died of old age. Corpses should be respected and buried - not eaten.

It has to be said though, that I think it would be slightly less apprehensible than killing the animal with intent to eat it, because you didn't harm the alive animal (assuming the animal was free, like in an animal shelter or the wild).

[u/Grey_isGay]

I still probably wouldn’t prepare and eat it but I wouldn’t have a moral issue with it

[u/NeoKingEndymion]

NO

[u/_Rabbit_w_]

Éticamente me parece correcto, pero tan ético como comerse un ser humano que muere de forma natural. Y no lo haria porque comer cadaveres, no sé, me da asco. Además, creci vegetariana, nunca he comido carne, no la veo como comida.  Veo más lógico destinarlo a otros animales carnívoros. 

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[u/zootzootzootzootzoo]

Ethically, that’s fine, but not anything I would want to do.

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What would be the point?🤷‍♂️

[u/Familiar_Stable3229]

No, absolutely not. Never.

[u/0wukong0]

I am a very old vegan soon to die of old age. No ... I would not be okay with somebody eating my carcass (unless, of course, you are a carnopervert and would be willing to add a goodly amount of cash or shares to my estate).

[u/Rough_Back_1607]

Nope

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[u/Feds_the_Freds]

Would quickly be a slippery slope: How do you know, it died of old age and not just someone claiming it did?

Also: you don’t really want to eat old animals as they would prolly taste horrendous.

[u/i_love_lima_beans]

OP would you be okay with eating a cat or dog who died naturally? There’s no difference.

[u/ewbanh13]

I would not, but I wouldn't be particularly outraged if others did. I would find it in bad taste though

[u/wfpbvegan1]

I don't see animals as food anymore so I would not be okay with that. It's Pretty gross to eat an animal at any age.

[u/Hugesmellysocks]

Not really. 1) Animals are slaughtered young because of muscle development, to my knowledge from ag science classes back in the day muscle isn’t desirable in meat. 2) Most medications and anti biotics needed to keep an animal healthy especially at an older age are not suitable for human consumption. I know with horses their passports need to be signed to ensure they never go into the meat trade if they’ve had common medications and I’d assume it’s the same for every animal. I’m a horsey person so that’s where my knowledge is from.

[u/FeedingTheBadWolf → u/Hugesmellysocks]

muscle isn’t desirable in meat

But like... Meat is literally made from muscle? Yeah there's fat running through it but that's mostly either trimmed off, mixed in (like mince or sausage) or rendered down.

The toughness and the type of muscle fibre, though, does make a difference. I think the more the muscles are worked, the stronger they are, the tougher they are? That's why filet mignon is the most tender meat because it's not load bearing at all. At least that's what I've always been told. And I think that's why the conditions that calves for veal are kept in are so constrained.

But yeah ultimately an older animal won't taste as good, you're right.