Why do people wave sentimental feelings to pets, and then eat meat?

Question

By wave I mean have.

Answer 1

Not only don't we see animals die, it's also cultural to accept such killing. It's a certain hypocracy to regard a pet's life and then to regard an unknown creature as "automata."

People don't need meat to live.

Vegetarians aren't sickly and weak.. there's so many athletes that don't eat meat.. why? because it has terrible crap in it, it clogs your body.. we don't digest cooked scabs well at all...
So what if maybe you can't look like Arnold Schwarzeneggar...

I could easily say "Most meat-eaters" look horrible as well.
Vegetarians that eat pizza and ice cream are going to look like hell. It's not easy always for vegetarians to figure out what to eat right since they often grow up in families that don't encourage it.
But you have to be charitable when you point out a vegan with a good diet and lifestyle and one who does not. The best-looking omnivores eat a Minimum of meat. Atkin's Diet is really screwed.

And there is no basis to the claim that we can't live and thrive off vegetables. None. Nutrition as a science is really young, assumptive, and often wrong. Especially when we can point to many counter-examples. The "food pyramid" in the US is a propaganda myth that's lobbyed onto children, by interest groups.. who happen to sell dead pigs and cows and corn flakes.

The teleological argument isn't right. Just because we have eaten it in the past doesn't make it "natural". If you look at homologous dental structures among herbivores and carnivores... or look at digestive tracts, humans are not at all close to wolves and tigers and bears. We can't live well on an all-meat diet. If it's cooked meat you will die. If raw, you wont live long passed 60 (see eskimo studies). A raw plants diet however can sustain someone passed 100 years (essenes).

Equating animal life to plant life and saying that vegans are being ambiguous towards living things is wrong also. For if we assume plant = animal, we must feed the animal millions upon millions of plants and in the process lose MORE than 90% of what we invest in the animal by entropy. When we could just be eating what we can grow on the fields that feed the cow.


So yeah~~~ keep joking around about it, because there aren't good arguments for eating meat other than "I can build bigger unnecessary muscles" and "it tastes good".

Answer 2

Because of the cultural diet in which they were raised. I know that I have cut back [tremendously] on the meat I eat, and I try very hard to pass on the honest truth about the brutal ways stocked animals are treated, but I cant see cutting out meat from my diet entirely.

I do not agree with the over production of meat, and I would like to see it cost more and be appreciated. But we live in a world where people love to take things for granted, push problems on other people, and lose all responsibility for thier actions.

I think that someone can certainly have love for pets, even love for cows, chickens, pigs, turkey, and so forth and still eat meat. If the human race wasnt so overpopulated then maybe so much suffering wouldnt need to take place but as long as there is demand, there will be supply.

Answer 3

Humans can have sentimental/emotional feelings about anything. A sports team, a computer, a car or a pet.

That emotion has nothing to do with the practical matter of if they enjoy eating meat.

Answer 4

Yes look on YouTube at Raw Cat Diet people do use it so do I but second best is a corn free soy free grain free by product free diet of wet then dry. The reason most pets are fed it is because most owner never have heard of a other food like I asked this one lady what brands her cats ate and they say the best and it's something like Fancy Feast because they do get a small choice on bad or worse so the bad is the best they have never heard of Felidae or the Raw Diet and dogs owners are worse with chicken bones going to kill your dogs myth but really this is only cooked bones I suggest feeding your soon to come kitty some sardines or any canned fish only packaged in water and if possible without salt that is mines favorite treat.

Answer 5

People are naturally inconsistent and make descisions on an emotional basis, not a logical one.
Human nature it what it is.

It doesn't help that we've been so isolated from our food supply. My uncle's a pig farmer and he's NOT sentimental about his pigs, or about his pets, because he sees the cycle of life and death and our meat-eating relationship with it every day.

Answer 6

Humans are meat-eaters by nature; our forefathers hunted the wild cattle on the plains of the prehistoric world. We are meat-eaters, that's why we eat meat.

Now, the pet on the other hand is a companion, like a member of the family. People, by nature, are social creatures, we like having others around to keep us company; our pets, though not human, do fill this position, making us happy (along, of course, with the human people we call friends and family).

Answer 7

Typically we aren't serving Fluffy up on the barbeque pit. People also spend inordinate amounts of time tending gardens, but few shed a tear over eating salad.

The "philosophical" answer, I suppose, would address the difference between pets and food supply and really delve into how big a role emotional distance plays in our lives, but that just doesn't sound like a lot of fun.

Answer 8

That is a really good question. They love their dogs and cats, yet can cry when they see dogs in cages in China ready to be sold for human consumption. Dog meat is considered the norm there.
It is hypocritical as these so called animal lovers can quite happily sit down to a succulent little lamb or calf or piglet. They just dont think these are animals as they dont see them before slaughter or the horrific conditions they are slaughtered under. "If abattoirs had glass walls, no-one would eat meat" quote from Sir Paul McCartney.

Answer 9

Good question.

I'll take it you're either vegetarian, or thinking about it.
Let me remind you that, while eating meat may not be the most beautiful or humane practice, it provides your body with many proteins and vitamins that no vegetable, tofu, or soy product can provide you with.

This is why, when you see long-term vegans and vegetarians, they usually look very pale and sick. They have been depriving their bodies of those important proteins and vitamins.

For you to properly get these proteins derived from meat, might I suggest meat on weekends only?

As for your question: one is for pleasure, the other for survival.

Answer 10

Because pets are loving and loyal and keep people company. Part of the sentimental feelings stem from the comfort that when the s%it hits the fan and there's no food their pet would make a tasty meal.