Poll: Why do you (not) eat meat?

[Blue Hero]

Cows are delicious, pigs are delicious, chickens are delicious. Animals are delicious. I like delicious animals. I will eat delicious animals because they are delicious and I like them.

 

[The Thinker]

Are fish considered meat? Or are they just fish?

Fish is meat. Tasty tasty flesh.

On another note: I'll stop eating meat when an animal of the type I eat asks me not to.

 

[Sejs Cube]

I eat food because food tastes good. This includes meat.

There is meat that does not taste good. I don't eat it. There are some vegetables and fruit that do not taste good. I don't eat those either.

That's about all the justification I feel I need for my dietary choices.

 

[Fijiman]

BAAAACOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!

And by pure coincidence, I am watching a special on restaurants that specialize in bacon recipes. For example, there is a candy shop in California that makes chocolate covered bacon.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I see the slaughter and farming of animals to be a terrible and unnecessary waste of life. We can survive by not eating meat so why should we kill other beings just to satisfy a want.

We can survive without computers, television, roads, houses if you want to get picky. What, that hole in the ground not GOOD enough for you, eh?!
Why should we defile and destroy the land just to satisfy a want?

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

I eat whatever really.>.> Fish Meat Veggies Fruits...yeah there is nothing that i won't eat *As long as it is Edible Tasty good and Sanitary*

 

[spartan231490]

Greetings humans. Today I would simply like to know, why do you eat meat? And if you do not eat meat, you can tell why not.

I do not eat meat because I believe it is harmful for the environment. And I hate the greasy taste it leaves in my mouth. Also: "Look at me! I'm so hipster for not eating meat!"

Now your turn!

Could you explain your statement that you believe it is harmful for the environment?

I eat meat because I see no compelling reason not to, it's tasty, and it's hard to get the protein you need without it.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Because it's cheap(beef), delicious, and give's me protein. And dammit I love rib's.

 

[Asita]

Because biologically, I'm an omnivore. It's really that simple to me.

 

[Versuvius]

Sorry, but because, bacon. Bacon is the god of all things and like any omnivore thats had bacon, craves meat.

 

[Vault101]

Greetings humans. Today I would simply like to know, why do you eat meat? And if you do not eat meat, you can tell why not.

I do not eat meat because I believe it is harmful for the environment. And I hate the greasy taste it leaves in my mouth. Also: "Look at me! I'm so hipster for not eating meat!"

Ok, before I say why I eat meat (which I do), I have to point out that most of the world doesn't usually eat meat, so technically eating meat is the hipster option.

OT: I eat meat because I enjoy the taste and texture. Now granted, vegetables are technically more healthy, but I'd rather live to be 60 and enjoy the taste of meat than live to be 90 and never know the succulent flavour of bacon. Besides, Omnivores and Carnivores exist for a reason. If all of the complex organisms ate plant life, we'd swiftly consume all flora on the planet, and with it all of Earth's oxygen. And we'd all DIE. I'm just maintaining the balance.

meat isnt unhealthy on the same level of sweets/chocolate...we are able to eat it for a good reason (its got good stuff in it)

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I used to be strictly carnivorous. Vegetables were a weird thing in my life, and I didn't want any part of them. However, after losing 71lbs and discovering the necessity of complex carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables - I've found that my body, personally, enjoys the lighter side of eating. My diet during the week is mainly organic vegan/light vegetarianism. I feel lighter, healthier, and just better. My omnivorous husband gives me a hard time about it though, calls me a hippie because I believe in being eco-friendly. I also seem to have a problem with how animals are treated before they die to feed most people. Call me soft, call me weak, but it's the pain of the 'product' I can't stand. It's the small cages, the filth, the beatings, the killing machines, the indifference to any suffering of other beings that feel joy, pain, fear; the way they go about it just seems completely unnatural and unfair.*

(*Personal opinion - don't shoot!)

 

[Darknacht]

Greetings humans. Today I would simply like to know, why do you eat meat? And if you do not eat meat, you can tell why not.

I do not eat meat because I believe it is harmful for the environment. And I hate the greasy taste it leaves in my mouth. Also: "Look at me! I'm so hipster for not eating meat!"

Now your turn!

Because I believe that eating plants is immoral.
Also you are using a computer that is harmful to the environment. Go live off the grid with no power or vehicles and grow all of your own food and then we can talk.

 

[Wintermoot]

I need meat to live.
you can't get all meat nutrients from meat replacers and humans have evolved to be omnivores.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I am currently on a form of the Paleolithic Diet, a diet that naturally encourages the consumption of hunter-gather eating, rather than the farming & harvest forms of today. Meat is just plain good for you. It's an important part of the human diet. Here, allow paleo-purveyor Mark Sisson to elaborate:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/meat-eating-human-evolution/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/in-defense-of-meat-eaters/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/veganism-again/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/vegetarian-myth-review/

There, that ought to do it.

 

[Parkway91]

I see the slaughter and farming of animals to be a terrible and unnecessary waste of life. We can survive by not eating meat so why should we kill other beings just to satisfy a want.

We can survive without computers, television, roads, houses if you want to get picky. What, that hole in the ground not GOOD enough for you, eh?!
Why should we defile and destroy the land just to satisfy a want?

I'm not being picky. You have a good point. But when the want is at the cost of another beings life, I don't see the justification in that.

 

[Vault101]

I am currently on a form of the Paleolithic Diet, a diet that naturally encourages the consumption of hunter-gather eating, rather than the farming & harvest forms of today. Meat is just plain good for you. It's an important part of the human diet. Here, allow paleo-purveyor Mark Sisson to elaborate:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/meat-eating-human-evolution/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/in-defense-of-meat-eaters/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/veganism-again/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/vegetarian-myth-review/

There, that ought to do it.

thats what really pisses me off

its one thing to adopt and promote vegetarian/veganism for one reason or another

but to spread mis-information to make meat eating seem "unhealthy" is really fucking....awful, PETA and the like do it

and when they use burgers as an example of meat...of coarse is unhealthy ITS A FUCKING BURGER

.......hmmm tasty burgers...excuse me

 

[Vault101]

I see the slaughter and farming of animals to be a terrible and unnecessary waste of life. We can survive by not eating meat so why should we kill other beings just to satisfy a want.

We can survive without computers, television, roads, houses if you want to get picky. What, that hole in the ground not GOOD enough for you, eh?!
Why should we defile and destroy the land just to satisfy a want?

I'm not being picky. You have a good point. But when the want is at the cost of another beings life, I don't see the justification in that.

the cloths you wear, even the electronics you use are possibly made by slave labour in everything but name, most of our comforts in this first world western country come at the expense of 3rd world people