Vegatarians--how do we "save the life of an animal" by not eating meat?????

Question

The poor animal has aleady died...how are we helping them by not eating meat?

And also if we are not supposed to eat meat; why does it taste so good ??

Thanks for answering my questions !!

Answer 1

Did you know that Vegetarians are more harmful to the environment than carnivores?


Every say, lands are wiped for grain fields for vegetarian-specialist farms.

This causes an abudnance of machinary that needs to harvest the food, plus all the water and pesticides needed, and the machinary needed to refine it.

Answer 2

I answered your 'Why does meat taste so good?' question already, so here I am answering this one.

When you choose not to eat meat, you're making the meat industry lose money because they then don't have to produce as much.

For example, if a whole city were to decide to stop eating meat, the local grocery stores would no longer need to carry any, which would make the meat packers, and butchers become job-less, which would save the thousands of countless cows (or any sort of meat) they would slaughter for your dinner plate.

A lot of the meat in the store doesn't sell, and gets thrown away. How sad is that? All those dead animals, all those hungry children, and the meat in the trash.

Meat is not ethical.

Answer 3

It's all a matter of supply and demand. if we don't eat meat, then fewer animals will be raised and slaughtered for meat. It won't save the animals that are already dead, but it might keep others from suffering. Meat doesn't really taste that good to me...of course that's the reason I'm a vegetarian, but really, even if it's good, is it worth the life of an animal?

Answer 4

Millions of wild animals are killed each year to produce the vegetarian diet. Rabbits, snakes skunks, possums, you name it, get caught up in the machinery that harvests grain. So by eating less meat and more grain, you are still killing animals as a direct result of your choices.

Of course, if you REALLY cared about animals, you would raise your own food and hand pick it to prevent inadvertent slaughter. But you don't really care THAT much, do you?

Answer 5

Well, if there were more vegetarians, there would be less demand for commercial meat products so consequently supply would decrease and fewer animals would be bred to die in captivity.

BUT on a the basis of NUMBER of animals killed to produce on calorie of energy, studies show that more animals die to produce one calorie of energy from wheat than one calorie of energy from meat. A huge number of wild mice, frogs, birds, etc are killed during the harvesting of wheat. If your only priority is keeping the largest possible number of animals alive, you would want to be eating a 100% animal-product diet. If you're concerned about the actual TREATMENT of animals and the conditions in which they live their lives, certainly a vegetarian diet would be the right choice for you.

Answer 6

If people ate less meat, the demand would decrease and less animals would be killed! obviously! As for the poor things being caught up in the machinery, do u seriously think it's better to slaughter and butcher them!
If i'm not mistaken, it has been scientifically proven that humans do not have teeth suited to chew meat.....does that ring a bell?!

Answer 7

As a Vegan in to RAW. I don't not eat meat because of the killing of animals as much as the belief it's not good for me.
Meat eating is a acquired taste. Most small children don't care for it & many of us grow up not likling it too.

http://www.hacres.com/home/home.asp

Answer 8

If we supply less demand for meat than people wouldn't kill cows for the fun of it. They would treat the animal nicely because they have feelings also.

Answer 9

Every time the meat is bought then it creates another gap in the market to produce another pig, cow chicken etc to be electrocuted, slit and bled so you can enjoy your next meal that you eat.

Answer 10

I'd just like to say that the majority of grain produced and harvested in this country is used to feed livestock, NOT vegetarians. a cow eats much more grain than I do.