Would you eat meat if you had to kill it yourself?

Question

I am not a vegetarian, although i only choose to eat meat once or twice a week normally & cannot believe some of the abuse vegetarians/vegans get on message boards from idiots who don't understand other peoples choices of diet.

Answer 1

Good question. Meat eating animals hunt, kill and eat meat raw. Humans who eat meat buy it from the supermarket or butcher shop. If they had to hunt as carnivores do, I think more would adopt a healthy vegetarian lifestyle
We are herbivores, we cant digest meat which is why bowel cancer is on the rise.
I am not lecturing you, just stating the facts.
Hope I haven't offended you as you are right, meat eaters are very rude in this category.

Answer 2

Well doing as you say you do is probably the best thing, ie. eating meat once or twice a week as it is needed but not as much as veg.
I don;t have any problem with people being vegetarian or vegan or whatever else they like but I personally think it is a poor choice, particularly if they do not do enough to substitute the lost nutrients which I know many vegetarians do(I know a lot of them)

Anyway, in answer to the question. If someone told me right now that I would have to kill the animal myself in order to eat meat then I would probably not. However, if it was something I had always done then I guess I would as it would be normal. Certainly if I had a choice of starving ot eating an animal I had killed then I would kill and eat the meat.

BTW, I have to eat meat for health reasons, I could not be a vegetarian even if I wanted to so that works both ways.

Answer 3

Never.
Yes I know - thank you for supporting us. I recently saw a video of an animal being slaughtered - someone had gone to a farm and caught the whole thing on camera. If I wasn't a vegetarian already, that video would have instantly converted me. Eating animals is sickening and it just shocks me at the number of people who seem unaffeced by the amount of animal cruelty.
We don't live in the wild any more and we don't need to eat me to survive. We are human beings - we have intelligence and rationality and there is no reason why we can't question our diets and change them to what we think is best.

Answer 4

Yes, and I have, and i thouroughly enjoyed the process. Hunting is the oldest profession and a great pastime. I urge everyone who reads this to get out and give it a try.

We are designed to eat meat, and as such we are designed to hunt it. Go on, give it a try, it's amazing.

And vegetarians/Vegans get abuse because they dish so much out themselves. People respect others choices, but when these idiots (vegans) start preaching about how meat is murder then what do they expect but a barage of abuse from those of us who are still normal.

Answer 5

I think I'd feel happier eating something I killed myself since I'd be able to make sure it didn't suffer needlessly and wasn't subjected to inhumane farming methods.
I care alot about animal rights but at the end of the day everything dies and death is painful. It's unavoidable. What matters more is sustained abuse that farm animals suffer their whole lives.
Also, if animals didn't kill each other most of them would die out. I think it's fair to say that if anybody (even a vegetarian) was hungry enough they would kill for food.

Answer 6

Yes I'm a Native American. I believe everything in earth has a purpose. There is a joke that goes the only reason someone becomes a vegetarian is because he is a lousy hunter. Lighten up, people shouldn't ask questions they aren't ready to hear an opposing opinion to!

Answer 7

If I could kill it with a gun, yes. If I have to wrestle with it and hear it scream no. I once bought a live crab and wasn't sure how to cook it, so I asked the salesman. He told me cut it's legs and then cook it. I now imagine he didn't understand me or I didn't understand him, because as I cut the leg it started screaming. I felt terrible. I kept saying die, die. It took a long time before it died. At the end I didn't want to eat it but did so, because I felt so guilty for killing it. I think this is why people have kosher and hallal, the animal is supposed to die with one blow of the knife so it doesn't suffer for so long.

Answer 8

I know I'm gonna get blasted by some hippie liberal when I say this, but I'm a hunter, and I've shot and killed deer, rabbits, squirrels, and various birds. And then I go home, clean and cook them, and eat. So I can in all honesty say I would eat meat if I had to kill it myself. Been there, done that.

Answer 9

being a vegetarian is becoming the doctors choice for people who have heart conditions or health problems that stem from that i personally dont eat any red meat nor do i eat pork because of my health problems

Answer 10

No I couldn't.

I enjoy eating meat and know I would miss it but know I wouldn't want to do it.

Even now I find it distressing picking up an Oven ready chicken and placing it on the roasting tray. I think its the feeling of the rib cage that reminds me of picking up a baby.