Food choices?!
Food choices?
Many people on this forum are strongly against the "eating of meat" arguing that the slaughetr of animals cruelly is wrong. Now i for one know that animal slaughter is not very humane and is in fact painfull to the animal involved- yet i still eat meat.
This aside one principle arguement that has occoured on multiple curcumstances is that "killing animals is cruel". I am inclined to agree- but i am reminded that these animals are farmed and without us- the animal would not have had an existance in the first place (on the individual level, not species).
Do you think the slaughter of animals to feed the human population is wrong and should we reduce the amount of meat we eat and what are the methodology for such reduction measures?
Answers:
I do think the slaughter of animals to feed the human population is wrong, yes.
Although i agree this means that the animal would not be alive in the first place I think this is an invalid arguement for breeding animals. Surely its not right to say "Arrh, we gave you life so can treat you how we like" which is what that arguement would be saying.
As the worlds population grows, the production of meat can go one of 2 ways. Further concentration and artificial feeding ( god help all those animals ) or a reduction in meat consumption and it becoming a luxury. The land required to graze animals is not sustainable for the growing population.
Meat consumption can be reduced by ethical pricing - charging what it costs to rear animals humanely. That would reduce meat consumption by 90%. I live in the middle of the farming community and i can assure you that farmers do not want to treat animals the way they do, they are driven by meat-eaters demands for low prices.
But my reason for being veggie is the cruelty, pain, torture and death of the animals. I simply cannot be part of that.
There are many alternative diets that do not require us to kill animals, therefore i see it as selfish and unnecessary to do so.
Yes, very wrong.
Poor Animals.
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ok... i'm not goin' to lie... i love meat...but we tend to abuse what we have... a good moderation would have been wonderful
in most countries meat is only consumed on special occasions. People in the US eat 100 times the amount of meat that they need. If they went to a special occasion basis, they would be eating meat many times less than they are now. I think that's the way to deal with the problem.
I say they're hypocrites...they can eat vegetables and fruits which are also living things & it's just as inhumane to eat them as is eating meat...now since we cant live on sunlight and water i say damn them & enjoy
For me it's more about how they are given hormones and trapped to only live a few weeks. this only happens in america also they mix alot of **** with meat so its not good quality. its better to buy organic when it comes to meat
I think a lot of people have become dependant on meat as the basis for a meal, regarding it as incomplete if it doesn't contain any. I do not currently follow a vegetarian diet but regard meat as something to be eaten occasionally and not daily. I don't have a lot of interest in ethics right now but would advise others to look at vegetarian cookery as a means of varying their diets to provide them with a wider range of nutrients, flavours and more interesting culinary ideas.
I think that realistically you can't expect people to stop eating meat. They have for thousands of years and they will continue to do so. Animals are domesticated and in most cases..apart from maybe pigs.. would not be able to live in the wild. They depend on us to care for them but often they are abused.
What I do consider to be unacceptable is that an animal should have to suffer and not be allowed to behave in a natural way in it's lifetime. This is a product of the modern age, profit is put ahead of the welfare of a living creature and that is not right. Often animals are kept in appauling conditions and offered little opportunity to engage in instinctive and natural herding and flocking behaviour. I think that is something that has to change.
Not only does disease spread more easily when animals are factory farmed, but the animals can not really have anything other than a miserable life.
I don't disagree with people eating meat, but I do disagree with the methods used to expolit animals and get as much profit from them as is possible.
We need to respect and not abuse the the creatures that we depend on for food. Ancient people treated their animals better than we do today because they knew their value and understood that people depend on animals as much as animals depend on people.
animals eat meat & so do I had yourather have a tomato or a bigold juicy burger
You think animals would not have had an existence without us. But you are wrong. Infact animals can live peacefully without humans. God has created carnivorous for maintaining ecological balance by killing smaller animals. We don't need to interfere in that. Most of the animals are becoming extinct because of us and if we don't stop killing even now then the result will be that human beings als will become extinct because we need all the animals. We are dependant. I think animals will celebrate everyday if there are no humans.
Killing animals for food is bad. They are helpless. We have to reduce it.
In the past, a normal family would maybe be able to afford a meat joint for the dinner only occasionaly. These animals came from extensive methods of farming and would have lived a fairly happy life and died quickly at the hands of a farmer. Back in those days heart disease, cancer etc were known as diseases of the affluent. Possibly because they were the only ones who could afford meat every meal? Anyway, that's a different argument, and one I'm not qualified to have.
It's the methods of farming and slaughter these days that make most people turn veggie at first. The only reason that animals must be factory farmed and then shipped off to be slaughtered at such a rate that it is done gruesomely and inhumanely is through sheer greed.
Greed of the producers, yes, but also the greed of the consumer. If people didn't insist on having meat everything, on tap 24 hours a day there would be no need for it.
Every corner shop, butcher, supermarket, restaurant, street vendor, fast food chain all require a constant supply of burgers, steaks, bacon, chicken kievs, kebabs, hotdogs, BBQ chicken legs...the list goes on and on. And people want to pay the lowest price for it all.
It's sheer greed and gluttony, and all manner of creatures are living miserable hellish lives and suffering brutal terrifying deaths because of this greed. As a species we should hang our heads in shame. My biggest regret is that it took so long for me to open my own eyes and see it.
If you are reading this and scoffing at it then you clearly have no clue about factory farming or slaughter houses. Go and read up on it and see if you still scoff.
Another reason not to breed and eat animals with our current planetary crisis is that it takes 20 acres of land to feed a meat eater and only one acre to feed a vegetarian. A good enough reason I would say besides the suffering of the animals.
STOP ALL ANIMAL CRUELTY
hunting
test labs
slaughter
use of entertainment
they should all be stoped i do not eat meat and im proud of it and for the dumb dudes that say
"well why are they made of meat then"
SO ARE HUMANS YOU IDIOTS!
slaughter is wrong however the animal is killed it is still evil
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Did you know that studies were carried out many years ago to ensure that methods used to slaughter animals were as quick and painless as possible.
This was actually done by measuring brain activity in the animal at the point of slaughter.
The results were that the animal 'terminated' instantly confirmed by the ceasing of all brainwave activity.
These methods were adopted across Europe and America.
Unfortunately other less forward countries still used the methods of their ancestors, and again unfortunately some of those practices have entered Europe under the guise of immigration.
You must never consider that the Human is top of the food chain, far from it.
Most animals could best us in a one to one fight if provoked.
Finally, I have been to countries that are unable to grow enough cereal or arable crops to be able to feed their people, but a cow can give milk, have calves, give food and clothing to these poor people.
That's all they have.
There is no choice.
If you saw the conditions they live in, you'll see they wish they didn't exist in the first place, killing is the least cruel of what they do at factory farms.