Why I think eating Meat is A-ok

[nbamaniac]

What the heck? I eat meat because it's delicious. Sometimes a simple reason will suffice.

 

[Twilight.falls]

First, I haven't read the entire thread. What I'm about to say may have been said already.

I'm fine with eating meat because I don't personally know what I'm eating. The reason I'm so attached to my cat, for instance, is because I hang around her all the time. She's very close to me, and is a part of my family.

We know cats and dogs and many other animals can show emotion. But I don't get the chance to sympathize with my dinner. I don't think of my porkchops as being once a living thing, I think of it as something for me to eat.

 

[Shadie777]

There is a reason why we are omnivores.
It is easier on our bodies if we eat both meat and plants.
Sure you can survive without one but there can be some health risks.
Besides, either way you are still killing a life (plants count).
That being said, I understand why some people don't want to eat meat due to how the animals are treated in the meat industry.

 

[Turing]

I'll say beforehand that I'm not trashing vegetarians or vegans, people dont eat meat for a whole bunch of reasons and they have every right too

but heres the reason I think its ok

Animals are dicks[/B]

no really thats why, let me explain

I think when we see animals, we admire them and also see human traits in them (ohh those lion cubs are playing! cute!!) which is also why you see talkign animals in...well alot of things

but heres another thing, I thourght that mabye we are also in a way applying human empathy and morality to animals, and nature as well

which simply doesnt work

because most of us accept that animals kill each other in the wild, we accept it as fact, in fact animals dont just kill each other, they mutilate and maim each other in horrible ways that would most of us recoil in horror...just take birds for example http://www.cracked.com/article_19263_the-6-most-disturbingly-evil-birds.html (gotta love cracked)

My point is that you cant apply the same rules we use for humans to animals, why is a cow slaughtered in a sloughter house any different to a calf getting mauled to death by wolves?

because one is "nature" therefore its ok, but because its US the other one isnt, the way I see it if youre going to stop US eating meat, why not stop a lion? (actually PETA thats a challenge..really try and do that please!)

Now I do want to say I DO NOT belive that we should cause harm to animals for no good reason, as humans in a way we are custodians of the earth and should respect the animals..and all that jazz, so no I dont belive in animal cruelty (as in homless animals, people abusing animals, or being inhumae with their dealings with them)

I guess its really the animals groups that Im annoyed with, they act is if animals are thease inocent angels who would never hurt a soul

animals dont have morals, animals are not like us, liek dolphiins everyone loves dolphins right? well they also kill porpises for fun

in other words nature is a *****

EDIT: Im not saying that animals deserve to be eaten because they are dicks, that was a joke

Im saying that nature is not all meadows and rainbows, and we arnt even eating wild animals, we are eating animals bred for that purpose, nature guided by us

I get what you're saying although I rarely use meat in my cooking due to the fact that human average meat intake is way higher than necessary.
You can definitely argue that its alright to kill and eat other animals because, well, other animals do it.
Of course on the flip side you could also argue that animal husbandry is pretty much just deathcamps where we kill sentient beings by the millions to feed a needless addiction to large amounts of meat

 

[Don Reba]

"Omnivores (from Latin: omni all, everything; vorare to devour) are species that eat both plants and animals as their primary food source."
I don't believe that anyone it thick enough to not understand that what I meant was "Actually people who never eat meat have some health issues THAT ARE RELATED TO THEIR VEGETARIANISM."

Getting better. Notice the word "should" missing from the definition.

I believe, you mean "health issues caused by vegetarianism" ? very different from merely being related. Now, if you look it up, you will find that meat consumption comes with a host of problems of its own. Here is one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21674008

CONCLUSIONS: High intake of red and processed meat is associated with significant increased risk of colorectal, colon and rectal cancers. The overall evidence of prospective studies supports limiting red and processed meat consumption as one of the dietary recommendations for the prevention of colorectal cancer.

As with so many things, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you want to make a decision or if you want to criticise someone else's choice, you should first inform yourself and then weight the risks.

 

[Warforger]

Animals are dicks[/B]

That's too generalizing, WAAAAAAAAAY to generalizing. Not all animals are the same mind you, hell animals are alot different from each other then humans and I think you completely missed the point of evolution. On the other hand I do agree, the people complaining all day about how nature is so great and how we're so bad and violent are retarded, and yes I did just call some of my family members retarded for the reasons you stated.

However I do agree it's ok to eat meat mostly because that's the natural way of life, morales are a creation of man, they weren't there before. Us doing what we do simply is the process of dominance, hell say pollution, all this jibber jabber about how it's destroying the environment, but do you know what the first pollutant was? Air. That caused the first mass extinction that killed I think 90% of the species on earth, all those who couldn't breath air were left for dead, that is how evolution works, by killing those who cannot survive the environment they're in especially when it changes since it's always changing. So in all of actuality, we're not destroying the environment we're changing it.

 

[Mr. 47]

I like meat, so I eat meat. I really do not think anyone has to justify that. We evolved by eating meat, it's natural to eat meat. No one, or at least I hope no one, is trying to get a lion on a veggie diet. It's as morally wrong when a lion eats a deer, as when we eat ham, or beef.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

I'm a pescetarian (someone who eats fish but not meat), which always puts me in a rather awkward position in the whole eating debate. But personally I justify my diet on several counts:
* Intelligence - fish are less intelligent than a cow, a chicken and especially a pig (who are as intelligent as dogs). Just as I feel more ethically able to crush a fly than I would to kill a duck, so eating fish is more justifiable in terms of this.
* Nature - being the ***** that she is, fish would be eaten by another natural predator if I didn't get in there. The same can't be said about cows, chickens and pigs nowadays - unless someone suddenly released wolves all over the place...
* Health - considering that the benefits of eating fish are greater than those of eating red meat, there is more justification in terms of sheer nutrition and necessity for eating fish.

So basically that's what I say everytime somoeone questions me about my diet.

BUT @ - OP

The reason I disagree with your POV is because we can't simply treat humans as another peg on the food chain that has some natural right to laud it over the others. We are a sentient intelligence, and we should not abuse our position. It is ridiculous to say that if our roles were reversed they would eat us, because no other animal has been properly sentient as we are - how would we ever be able to say what they would do in our place?
Secondly, eating meat deals incredible damage to the environment. If we all became vegetarians, then the whole climate change issue would be effectively be solved overnight. It's basic biology, that the more links on the food chain the less efficient it is.

 

[Subwayeatn]

Animals are called animals because... THEY'RE ANIMALS.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Why I think eating meat is okay: It tastes good. I honestly don't care about the mistreated animals being raised in terrible conditions before being slaughtered for our consumption; I love the taste of grilled meat, so I eat it.

 

[PontiusTM]

Yeh but if you look at a herbivores teeth, like a sheep, they're more squarish shape for grinding and chewing plant matter. Then if you look at human teeth its clear that we've evolved to eat both and anyone who wants a balanced diet should

that's what omnivores do ^^

 

[Vandenberg1]

Gotta love Cracked. But on topic, I agree with you; it's all double standards. I occasionally stop eating meat because I feel bad but I'm a firm Catholic and Jesus ate meat so I guess I'm allowed to? As long as the animals weren't tortured or treated badly, I'm okay with it.

Yet satan27 is your tag name?/.;.. lol

My ancestors ate meat, meat is delicious, meat is healthy (yea alotta meat is healthy just not the meat Americans tend to eat). Anything I kill I eat or its just sport and I'm not into sport killing so much. Who cares if Jesus ate meat? He also turned water into wine (supposedly) does that mean its ok for everyone to drink? What about beating my lanlord to taking my money with a whip? He did that too

Eating meat is not cruel.

 

[Raizekage]

Why I think eating meat is A-ok:

It's tasty.

 

[Gustavo S. Buschle]

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God damn you are hard headed. I'm saying humans are omnivorous, they are not supposed to eat meat they are supposed to eat MIXED. Sure if you eat only meat it can be worse than eating only vegetables, but if you eat both it is better.

 

[penguindude42]

Ohohoho, this is delicious!

YES! YES!!!

/mbison

~Tom<3

 

[CarlMin]

So what, your point is that animals aren't the angels we like to think they are, and therefore, we shouldn't feel the need to treat them morally (seeing as moral is a human concept)

For that logic to work, animals would have to be more cruel than human beings, not just as cruel - and it could certainly be argued that animals aren't just as cruel seeing as they're relatively limited intelligence makes it impossible for them to destroy the world we are.

But even if animals are just as cruel as we humans have proved ourselves to be, and I don't think I need any examples when it comes to human cruelty towards animals, that still doesn't justify the meat industry. Because then we would be on the same moral level, so to say.

Animals are called animals because... THEY'RE ANIMALS.

So humans aren't animals? And where would you say the limit goes? Is it a question of intelligence?