Aug 26, 2007 12:49AM GMT
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Lifestyle - Health
Is eating meat animal cruelty?
An ad on SodaHead next to a Michael Vick poll said "Meat = Animal Cruelty" and linked to a ChooseVeg website.
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Answered Yes, Meat means dead animals abused for food
people ssay you can not live without eating meat bc there is no there way of geting the proteins and nutrients but its not true bc soy is actualy good and contains almost as much protien as meat itself without the inhumane process of geetting it -
Answered Yes, Meat means dead animals abused for food
There is no "humane" way of killing. We eat flesh because we like the taste of it, period. We were designed to be herbivores, we can live as herbivores, but it is our choice to continue to be omnivores.
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When you say there is no humane way of killing an animal is it because the animal feels pain or because they have a right to live and not be human food?
Your Vegan picture says "Vegan. Save indigenous people" among other things. What does not eating meat have to do with that? Didn't native American Indians hunt buffalo for food? Should we continue to allow them to do that? And what about "Stand up for workers' rights." Should we not close companies that employ people who butcher animals? Or should we fire those people?
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You can always make an arguement to eat flesh, but the only reason we choose to eat flesh is because we can.
“[T]hose who claim to care about the well-being of human beings and the preservation of our environment should become vegetarians for that reason alone. They would thereby increase the amount of grain available to feed people elsewhere, reduce pollution, save water and energy, and cease contributing to the clearing of forests.…
“[W]hen nonvegetarians say that ‘human problems come first’ I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.”
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, 1990
http://www.veganoutreach.org/...
http://ucsusa.org/assets/docu...
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Answered Undecided
Yes and no. I believe it's entirely dependent on how ethically the animal is treated before it's death. The consumption of meat is not considered animal cruelty if for example, if the meat is free range, there by providing the animal with a healthy mortality and life spam, enabling it to do the natural things that it would within its life, then killing the animal in a humain mannor, this to me is not "animal cruelty" as such, however, i still believe it to be imoral as i feel that we do not have the right to give a take life and some may argue that it all part of the circle of life and that in the wild animals kill other animals to survive everyday... and whilst this is true, what people fail to understand is that wild animals run on instinct whilst humans run on emotion and persoanlly i dont think that in this day and age and whilst living within a british culture that it is entirely justified to argue that we need meat to suvive as evidence suggests that we don't so taking this into consideration, one must then ask themselves is this entirely fair or nessesary.... i also believe that vegetarianism is not the answer to stopping animal cruelty in terms of animal treatment on consumption but free range meat is as it brings battery farming down.
I do consider the above advertisement to be animal cruelty due to the sickening way the KFC personally treats its animals and there is great evidence for this on the peta website. This kind of animal treatment i consider to be crue...Yes and no. I believe it's entirely dependent on how ethically the animal is treated before it's death. The consumption of meat is not considered animal cruelty if for example, if the meat is free range, there by providing the animal with a healthy mortality and life spam, enabling it to do the natural things that it would within its life, then killing the animal in a humain mannor, this to me is not "animal cruelty" as such, however, i still believe it to be imoral as i feel that we do not have the right to give a take life and some may argue that it all part of the circle of life and that in the wild animals kill other animals to survive everyday... and whilst this is true, what people fail to understand is that wild animals run on instinct whilst humans run on emotion and persoanlly i dont think that in this day and age and whilst living within a british culture that it is entirely justified to argue that we need meat to suvive as evidence suggests that we don't so taking this into consideration, one must then ask themselves is this entirely fair or nessesary.... i also believe that vegetarianism is not the answer to stopping animal cruelty in terms of animal treatment on consumption but free range meat is as it brings battery farming down.
I do consider the above advertisement to be animal cruelty due to the sickening way the KFC personally treats its animals and there is great evidence for this on the peta website. This kind of animal treatment i consider to be cruelty and quite frankly sick as displayed on the following website... www.myspace.com/dischordia_va...
I also think that people need to relise exactly what they are eating before muching away on a bukcet of KFC not just because of the treatment of animals but for the fact that also of what is in meat ie. cancer can be harmful to humans and lets face it you wouldn't eat infections and illness's if you knew what they were so what difference does it make is it's cooked and wrapped in batter?(less) -
Answered Yes, Meat means dead animals abused for food
A lot of the meat industry are for sure cruel to animals. There are also other good reasons to be a vegetarian. It's healthy and good for the environment. But let everyone decide for themselves after listening to arguments.
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We vote for the representatives that do ban things. And propositions on our ballots also let us ban things. Sometimes we are asked to chose to allow/ban things like murder, stealing, second hand smoke, motorcycle riding without helmets and sex with minors. Some are moral issues and others are safety issues. We vote for/against both types of laws.
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Answered Yes, Meat means dead animals abused for food
Killing an animal for food is not animal cruelty in and of itself. The human body is designed to eat meat. If an animal leads a long and happy life and then is killed by a lion for food, this is not animal cruelty, this is nature. If this was the way humans killed for food, this would not be animal cruelty. However, we do not do this. We leave the killing of animals for food to those who abuse these animals. Eating massed produced meats support the people performing animal cruelty. Unfortunately there are not many ways, if at all, to buy cruelty free meat. It's just not economical. One would pay tons of money over a lifetime to breed an animal, just to make a few bucks a pound for meat? It's not worth it to them. So unless you want to farm your own animals, you're out of luck.
Answered No, Meat is yummy
Humans are omnivores by nature. Some may choose to constrain their diets to vegetarian food, and some cultures live on meat products alone. There is nothing "wrong" with eating meat.