Is it ethical to eat meat when it is not necessary for surivival?!
Is it ethical to eat meat when it is not necessary for surivival?
I acknowledge that there are some isolated cases like Eskimos exist but for many of us we live in a situation of abundance and variety in which it actually would be more economical to eat only vegetarian products. So outside the anomalies does it not seem selfish to kill another being simply for the pleasure of satisfying the palate?
I know many will make health arguments but take it from someone who is a vegetarian and almost never gets sick nor has allergies because of it that it is the polar opposite case for the majority of people. All that is needed is motivation and education on how to eat.
First you must examine your heart. Are you living for love of all or for your own pursuits. Its your desire. It is your choice.
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If there was no need to eat meat like beef for instance, wouldn't the purpose for even having cows then cease to exist. Would anyone keep them in the wild just to eat up other precious resources.
Then I think, if weren't suppose to eat meat, why is beef and chicken so yummy.
Research shows that not all animals including humans are tasty(I'm being serious)
But i guess your right, I'm opposed to the slaughter of whales for food because people steal the giant beasts from the seas and there not farmed but in essence what is the difference. You have really made me contemplate my choice of eating meat.
i would think
Yes...it tastes damn good!
Yes. Meat is yummy.
Yes you are right but that doesn't mean you can try to persuade other people to join your cause. It's not going to work.
Sure it is. It's biological instinct.
Lets all disregard nature and the food chain and brand biology as unethical.
hug a tree
I like meat, I like veggies. I don't really care!
But it tastes good :(
*Kicks you for trying to make me feel guilty* heh
Yes eat meat.
It is healthy and you dont need to buy into that PETA crap.
If you really wanted to do it, you would not ask what we think.
So obviously, you are not even convinced.
that is a personal choice................i am glad that u r healthy and have such strong convictions
I respect vegetarians.
However I could never be one. Animals kill each other for food. Humans do the same. Don't get me wrong I adore animals but I don't see myself or the WHOLE world being able to only eat vegetarian products. Not to mention if we don't eat meat, chickens and cows would over populate and die of food shortage.
My answer is simple: no, it's not ethical. And frankly, I don't understand people who say they "looooove" animals and then eat chicken for dinner... they eould never eat their dog, what's the difference between a dog and a chicken?.. I have been vegan for 5 years now and my healt imprived a great deal. And no, I am not only eating green beans...
Some say: animals kill each others... but here's where the difference between huuman and animal is: in ability to make a choice and having compassion (and other emotions).
But vegetarianism is a very personal choice and might not be suitable for everybody.
I have been a vegan for over 30 years. There is nothing unethical about eating meat. I bet you are wearing leather shoes and a leather belt. Don't worry about what others do. Worry about what is good for YOU. I don't force my way of life on anyone. When I have dinner parties for friends that do eat meat, I cook it for them. Me being a vegetarian is MY lifestyle.
Meat is still the best source of protein so yes it is ethical. As for it being relevant to the human condition - well we all started life as insectisors, so when are ancestors left the comfort of the jungle, it wasn't hard for a our bodies to digest meat and it is a great source of fuel for the body. Plus many species of animal are kept alive purely by farming, so the world going Vegan would result in many species dying out - personally i wouldn't fancy going to the zoo to see a cow and pig. Also, and it is a small point, who can live without bacon sandwiches and fillet steak?
Well God originally intended humans and all other animals to only eat fruit, veggies & nuts. I could see where there would be a benefit.
I love meat. Ethical or not. Don't like alot of veggies, so I have no problem with it.
Its not necessary but it makes it easier
there's definitely more iron in liver that spinach
and with our knowledge we can live off lard and supplements but who wants to. There's definitely something write about eating because it feels so' very good.
The human body is amazing, it knows how to regulate it's self. You get cravings for certain things when your body has a deficiency of the mineral or nutrient (any pregnant woman will tell you this) So when you get a craving for a big steak, you body is saying it needs something, and knows it can be found in a steak.
I am a carnivore, I eat meat, I too have no allergies, and almost never get sick. In great health and physical shape.
Proud member of P.E.T.A....
....People Eating Tasty Animals
Many hunters , hunt responsibly, without hunting, many species of animals would over populate, eat all the vegetation, and starve.....Is a slow painful death better than a quick one?
Why do vegetarians always try to convince meat-eaters that it is more healthy to eat vegetables. How can this be when we humans were designed to eat both meat and vegetables? There's a lot to be said for eating better farmed meat, with no additives, etc I think if you become vegetarian, it should be because you don't want to kill animals. That's it.
Unfortunately I've seen too many animals kill animals to feel squeamish about eating roast chicken. I have no problems with it at all.
I agree with you. I'm also vegetarian (I eat eggs and dairy produtcs, but no meat of any kind). I have all the protein I need, I became healthier, allergies disappeared and I discoverd a whole new variety of dishes. Killing an animal to eat is completely unnecessary (except for those particular cases you mentioned, obviously).
Yes it is etical to eat meat, God told Noah "Everymoving thing that lives shall be food for you I have given you all things even as the green herbs." ( Genesis 9:3))
so to answer your question it is ethical to take the life of a deer, cow, chicken, because God said that we can he gave them to use to eat.
Also I eat meat and I am vary rarly sick so heath arument is kinda lame
it is not necessary for survival.
it is not necessarily ethical either. the philosopher hume (i believe it was hume) said that the only reason that humans eat meat is for the taste.
i do eat meat, but i feel bad about it all the time.
also, i am a culinary student, and i know for a fact that we do not need meat to survive or to be healthy.
Is it ethical to live when the human species will do just fine without you?
Well, God made all these animals for food so I would say yes it is ethical.
To begin ethics was created by humans in order for safety and to maintain balance in society. People could argue all day alone about what the word 'ethical' means. From what you are asking I will take it to mean right or just.
Since plants have the largest biomass in the world it would make the most sense for all animals to eat them. The simple fact of the matter is it doesn't work that way. There are herbivores (plant eaters), carnivores(meat eaters) and omnivores (plant and meat eaters). Humans are omnivores, whether you choose to be an herbivore or not you are still an ominvore by species.
If tigers became highly intelligent they would not be able to choose to eat plants. They have developed over time to require the high energy and protein that meat provides. Their bodies are not capable of functioning on a plant diet alone.
Bascially what this boils down to is variety and the question of cholestrol. We need cholestrol, period. In order for cholestrol to travel through our bodies efficiently, we need to balance our intake of lipoproteins. No more than 10% should come from any food group. Too much from any food group can cause health problems.
We need to consume dietary fats that increase our HDLs and decrease our LDL and VLDL levels. As you most likely know a lot of these oils can be gotten from plants, but if they are consumed in excess it can raise our levels of 'bad' cholestrol and the same goes for eating too much meat.
Balance is everything. Is it wrong to eat meat? Nutritionally I would say no. It seems to be part of our daily balance of things. If you choose not to eat meat you will be juggling your nutrional needs constantly trying to find a replacement that will suffice most likely ending in spending hours a day eating things.
I would rather eat a cheeseburger every now and then and exercise than try to find out if some bean is going to lower or raise my levels of cholestrol and if it is an ample replacement for my nutritonal balance.
I find it truely facinating how some people can choose one thing over another when it comes to 'saving the animals' 'saving humans' 'saving the tress'. How can anyone say that one is more important than the other.
I say if a person really believes we shouldn't eat meat, then they should also believe that we shouldn't use electricity or anything else which pollutes the earth and kills those very same animals that we are eating.
I don't believe we can be so hipocritcal to believe that when we are enjoying our meat free lunch in front of the TV in our air-conditioned homes, that we really care about this earth and the animals and plants that live on it and are being ethical because we choose to not eat meat. Why don't we also choose to not drive cars?
Doesn't make sense to me at all. We can't pick and choose what is ethical because it fits our political agenda. Ethics are about right and wrong and I don't see how one person can claim that I am unethical when I eat meat as they drive away in their car...
To the person that posted before me about god. I love it when people like you always try to bring god and the bible into every discussion because you are not willing to believe that god also gave us the power to make choices and decisons.
Things must be so simple for you. Well god created people in god's image and sometimes people kill other people so therfore it must be ethical. Your reasoning is flawed and I hope you can open up your eyes and realize that god does not want us to blindly follow the bible which contradicts itself throughout the ages. Instead god wants us to stand up and say hey...I'm going to use this well-developed brain god gave me and make a decision I think is right. Not just because you think in some scripture it says that god made animals for food.
The bible also mentions the four corners of the earth so I guess the earth must be flat right? These are metaphors and should be used in our lives to make good decisions not to take everything so literally.
Read to weigh and consider..not to blindly believe.
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No it's not ethical. If there was less demand for it there would be less killing and less torturing. It's not sensible either though. Meat gives you cancer and it's so badly processed that I'm surprised people still eat it and their only excuse is that it's tasty. A few decades back was inconceivable not to be a meat-eater but nowadays there are fantastic healthy alternatives that give you everything your organism needs without saturating you with fat and animal protein. There's a limit by which your body can dispose of those excessive elements, as you grow older that capability becomes less and less. When your body cannot expel it, it forms cysts which later become malignant. This is how cancer is formed.
There will come a time were meat-eaters will be the minority
What is actually unethical is the manner in which these "sources of meat" are treated prior to and during slaughter. I think what truly makes being a carnivore a problem is that people see pretty little packages and don't want to see what happens behind the scenes. An ideal situation would be that the people who insist on eating meat should only eat meat from non-factory farms who raise their livestock free-range and organically. Not only will this cut down on the negative effects meat has on their bodies, but the environment too. There are too many "but we have canine teeth" idiots out there who think murdering animals in our "right" and is "necessary"- it is unethical that they believe this and don't truly care/realize the damage they do.
I completely agree. I try not to proselytize, and tell other people what to do, because quite often carnivorous people get very defensive about their food. Eating is such a core human behavior, and we derive such a great, basic joy from the act, that instinctively we don't want anyone to mess with us.
But, we are no longer dogs guarding our bowls! We are enlightened, sentient, intelligent beings that can use reason to guide our actions.
The population of the world is still growing exponentially. Within the next 50 years or so we are going to reach the limit of the amount of food that we can harvest off of our planet. As we approach this we're going to have much more starvation than we have even now. It'll will become even more clear how unethical it is to raise a cow for meat or leather instead of harvesting a garden of grains and veggies. Remember, it takes 600 lbs. of grass protein to make 1 lbs. of beef.
We most definitely do not need to! I have only gotten sick ONCE this entire winter, I didn't even get sick last winter.
Pretty said when the omnivores can only back-up their case by saying either: A) It tastes too good (the only reason it does is because of all the flavouring they put in it!) or B) It's our natural instinct to eat meat (A lot of things have changed since cavemen were around).
I totally agree with ya man