ScrewRulesIHaveMoney said:
I honestly don't see the problem with eating meat. So animals are killed for it. Why should I care, What Measures as an Equal to a Human? Not a Cow, Pig, or any other animal that we eat for meat. It's the circle of life.
It may not be about killing an animal. Cows take a lot more food to make then it gives us back. We give them so so much wheat and grain which could be used to feed nearly everyone else. Plus the environmental issues such as we cut down trees to make a farm and they release so much gasses.
MikeOfThunder said:
Na i love the smell of dead babie... i mean bacon in the morning.
Saying that though, i'm currently on a chicken, veg and fruit regime atm. No bacon, sasauges (damnit... i have never spelt it before) or any crappy food for me!
Vegans are the worst.
Hmm, that could be dangerous to restrict yourself with so much food. You need a lot of lentils and fiber.
PrinceoN said:
VanityGirl said:
MaxTheReaper said:
I know a few vegetarian chicks, and they're both relatively healthy and happy, so whatever.
I myself am mostly carnivore, and I would rather eat human flesh than give up dead animals.
Seconded.
I'm a big carnivore and although humans are supposed to be herbivores, we can eat whatever we want. I for one see no problem in biting into a big juicy steak. I'll take mine medium rare with a nice helping of protein.
Oh, and Max, appearently a Maori friend of mine in New Zealand said people taste like pork, that's why the Maori people like pork.
id hate to correct you but...if we "can" eat whatever we want without our bodies going crazy, that means we're not "supposed" to be herbivores. we're "supposed" to be omnivores. Thats why we have canines and incisors (sp?)
People can survive on liquids. We're not supposed to, but if we can live healthily just with fruit and vegetable juices and such, do we need that meat?
FallenJellyDoughnut said:
I think its funny how vegetarians say YOU DONT NEED MEAT TO BE HEALTHY!
Yeah and I don't need two kidneys but it sure helps.
Actually, I found with my type of body it's more healthy for m to give up meat altogether. Researching so much into food I've realized meat is quite pointless other then taste. It seems pretty unnecessary for me to eat it. I have the choice to harm the environment and support a company that has no good behind it, or have the choice to not do that at all. I choose the latter. I feel this way I have more control in what I eat and what I am doing with my body and this world. Kinda spiritual too I guess.
will1182 said:
If people think it's morally wrong to eat animals, then I have to say that they're wrong. If it's because of religion, your god put other animals on this earth for you to eat. It's called the food chain, you need it to survive. Animals in nature must eat each other, and we are no different. If your god thought it was wrong, he would have made humans herbivores. Same thing if you do it out of principle. No one will frown at you for eating something to survive.
Because of society we've skipped the chain. We have no reason to put ourselves into these categories anymore.
badgersprite said:
Human rights reasons. Something like 90% of grain produced goes to feeding livestock for meat, which I think is a wasteful cycle, because all that excess could be given to the poor peoples of the world to solve global hunger. Also, because I live in Australia, I think that the damage done to the environment and native animals by irrigation and grazing land is especially pertinent.
Aha! Those are the numbers I needed! This is what I've come to learn. I do not want to be apart of this.
IdealistCommi said:
I actually tried to go vegetarian, for environmental reasons, but I couldn't stick with it. I didn't like the taste of some vegetarian food, and I longed for meat. I also love eating ribs.
Make your own. Learn more choices. I hate Tofu, my girlfriend hates a numerous amount of vegetables. but we eat so so much tasty food you couldn't even get with meat.
Try fasting for a while. It seems pretty stupid but really works. It cleanses your diet; sort of like a reset button. Doesn't draw you to so many foods as before.
Valate said:
PurpleRain said:
Valate said:
i could never be a vegatarian. I don't understand them, I love meat. "We hate eating living beings!" Is a terrible argument, we don't know if plants are sentient. Maybe the copper in their structure has memory storing/sorting capacity. So I don't understand the logic of being a vegatarian, unless it has to do with a medical condition.
Political
Environmental (is a major major one here)
Health
I can understand political and health, but environmental? Eating excess plants is worse for the environment, those plants are heliping to filter carbon dioxide into oxygen, why would you increase the consumption of that resource? To increase its production rates and thus have us grow more? That's basically the only sense I can get out of it...
has no one heard of crop rotations. A lot of people bring up this argument. Plus, cows seem to eat more crops then we do. We could be feeding so many more people with it. Plus, shipping cows back and forth to butchers, slaughter houses, farms, other farms, is a waste. Clearing land to make creatures that spill their gasses in our atmosphere. It's very harming. I had a book on it (and wishes I still did so I can fill you in with numbers).
