ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a very brief introduction to animal welfare, followed by a thought experiment. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. A key feature of moral judgement is that metaethics motivates people to act in certain ways. Metaethicists find this interesting and have developed various theories which describe and explain this phenomenon. It is explained with a thought experiment to get at the heart of two opposing theories in moral psychology with a case of whether eating meat is right or wrong. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about the problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to thought experiment.
