If we were meant to eat meat, why can't we?

Question

hunt an animal, kill it with our bare hands and eat it raw like all carnivores do.
Humans do not have this capacity. Because meat is sitting on the shelf to be bought and cooked, does that make us meat eaters?
Think before you answer.........
Just because the meat industry says we need meat, do we really?
Support your theory with a link or intelligent answer.
Because you enjoy meat is not the point here.

Can anyone answer the question logically?

We can grow vegetables, harvest them and eat them with our bare hands.....

I am not preaching to anyone Carol O, I see a lot of meat eaters post answers that they can eat meat but couldn't stand to think of the cruelty aspect or even their reasoning behind it.
There are protein substitutes.
Not a logical answer here, give it more thought.

Purplehaze,if you knew anything about reincarnation, you would know God does not condone animal eating.

Answer 1

3 arguments against eating meat.

1. We lack all the enzymes to digest meat completely in our stomach.
2. We suck and drink water like all the vegetarian animals like cows, monkeys, rhino, elephants and goats. The meat eating animals lick and drink water.
3. We can't eat *raw* meat.
4. Animals do not breed the live stock they need to eat. We make it an industry and unline the simpler times - the new meat industry is *very* cruel and inhumane.

Now 2 arguments for eating meat.

1. We happen to be on the top of the food chain. :)
2. Its about individual preference.

Answer 2

Of course we have the capacity to eat raw meat. But why would we? It tastes better cooked. Trust me -- if wolves knew how to make fire, they'd be barbecuing just like us.

And what does this mean?? "Because meat is sitting on the shelf to be bought and cooked, does that make us meat eaters?" If I go to a department store and buy a pair of jeans and a sweater sitting on a shelf then put them on, does that mean I'm not wearing clothes? Of course I'm wearing clothes and if I buy and eat the meat, then I'm a meat eater.

Do we NEED meat to survive? Vegans have proven that we don't. Of course, we don't need anything more than sackcloth to wear either, but I'd rather pick out different items of apparel if I can afford them.

What it all comes down to is moderation. You don't kill bison to just eat their tongues and let the rest of the animal rot in the field. But neither is there a rational reason to pay $350 for a pair of jeans.

If you don't want to eat meat, then don't. Just don't try to impose you anti-meat-eating theories on the rest of the world. It's not worth the grief - for you or the people you harass.

Answer 3

Hunt with our bare hands you say, as to what purpose is our brains to be used for?
It has been thought that evolution jumped when early man started eating the higher protein diet.
Humanities and the art flourished when farming and raising livestock begun, because there was more time for other things than subsisting off the land hunting and foraging for sustenance.
You need to spend some time watching the History Channel and Discovery or your PBS.
You owe a lot of the quality of life you enjoy now to the meat your ancestors ate.
PS .Eat Nebraska Beef

Answer 4

Eating meat was essential to evolution.
In short, in order for early humans brains to grow, they needed a huge amount of energy...which requires a meat diet.

I heard this a couple years ago in an anthropology course, and I'm not sure that my explaination will do the argument justice (which is my failing and not that of the argument...I remember hearing it and it made complete sense).
The theory states something like on a high-protein, nutirent-dense meat diet, the brain has plenty of energy (an over-abundance, actually) which allows for encephalization, or brain growth...and when you aren't constantly scrounging around in the dirt for food and chewing on roots (not getting very much out of them, most vegetables have limited energy values) then you have plenty of free time. Free time leads to innovation, more social interaction, and invention. In addition, consuming meat provides for a much more rounded diet and thereby helped to keep our ancestors a little healthier, which leads to living longer.

Look at the World today. Countires that have better access to meat have considerably less famine. Fact.

Also, according to a study by USC, because early man eat meat, humans started to develop greater resistances, longer lifespan, slower aging, and genes that offset high cholesterol and chronic diseases.

We have the luxury of getting meat at the market rather than going out and having to hunt it, which has spoiled us. It enables us to pretty much eat as much meat as we want...which really isn't all that healthy, and so meat gets a bad rap with cholesterol and fat.

It's not that meat is bad for you, meat got us where we are today on an evolutionary scale...it's that we became spoiled and have no concept of moderation.

Answer 5

this is a topic that will be going on even after we are gone...but this is how i feel. i was a vegetarian for 21 years not because of killing animals but because i didn't like the taste or texture...now i eat fish and very little pork. i can't stand chicken or beef it taste to weird. and yes i do actually catch my own fish during season one of the perks of living in Alaska. but on the flip side people who don't eat meat because it kills an animal well your killing that carrot when you pull it out of the ground so that is a bullshit answer. now your question at the beginning says hunt animals there are some people who do do all of their own hunting. kill with your bare hands??? have you tried killing a cow with your bare hands it doesn't happen. and eating it raw would make you sick. meat is sitting on the shelf because we have a meat industry. because not everyone has time to go out and hunt their own food. have you ever tried to go hunting????? it took two days to find me a caribou to kill and then hauling it out 15 miles with two other people took forever. and that is why the meat industry exists because if everyone went to hunt their own food nobodies job at work would get done and we would never advance in technology...etc etc. so yes it does still make you a meat eater if you buy it at the grocery store. i hope that answers your question.

Answer 6

You obviously haven't studied much physical anthropology. We ARE designed to eat meat, hence our canine teeth. Humans have the dentition of an omnivore (one who consumes both vegetation and meat). It is thought that early hominids were most likely scavengers, but once they mastered the use of tools, they took the role of predator. Predator or scavenger, regardless...we were and are meat eaters.

"Can anyone answer the question logically?"

I have.

"We can grow vegetables, harvest them and eat them with our bare hands..."

I can also keep chickens and rabbits in my yard and snap their necks, clean, and cook them with my bare hands. Your point?

"Purplehaze,if you knew anything about reincarnation..."

*LMAO* He said INCARNATION, not REincarnation.

Answer 7

God gave man the dominion over all the animals and he set aside those which were for consumption. Just because we are intelligent enough to invent weapons to kill our pray does not mean we can not kill and eat it. Even Noah had to take animals for consumption "Clean Animals" on the ark with him. So, we are not carnivores, we use meat for food as it was given to us. We have become more efficient killers of prey, and keep it cleaner to eat. Intelligence has shaped how we consume meat, not taken the need for meat consumption from us.

Answer 8

if i a understanding u correctly it is not that we need the meat itself it is the protien in it that we need .you can find it in other foods like nuts and that but i think it is more in the meat itself .you dont have to eat the meat just whatever protien is in the meat find it in other foods. also they may have not always cooked the meat (like in cave man times ) it may have been for taste and not need .cuz if u r really hungry starving in fact i dont think it mattered if it was cooked. if you do eat meat make it the lean stuff so not to get all the unhealthy fats out of it cook it thoroughly.
as to the meat industry having it pre packeaged and that not all of us are hunters and would starve if they did not do it for us.also as to the needing it like i said we do need the protien and the fat just not the bad fat or the cholesterol..and that comes from a nutritionist and not the meat industry

Answer 9

My teeth help me determine what I eat.

I have sharp canines in the front and flat molars in the back. Canines for piercing and ripping, flat molars for mashing...I am, like many animals, an omnivore.

Why is it less cruel for a bear or a whale to play with and tear up its prey than it is for someone to quickly chop the head off an animal and drain its blood? Does "prey" have less nerve endings than the chicken that got fried for me last week?

I don't eat meat because the meat industry tells me to. In fact, I have no correspondence with them, whatsoever.

My body is capable of processing protein and herbs. Therefore, since chicken tastes really good when sauteed in herbs, especially rosemary, I intend to keep eating it.

Why don't I kill the chicken with my bare hands? Because its more humane to cut off its head quickly and drain the blood....And somebody else gets paid to do that service for me.

Should I not feed my dog protein unless she kills it herself? I don't live in the Big Woods, like little Laura Ingalls. I live in the big city and I buy dog food for my dog.

As for what God condones and doesn't condone, one only needs to read a Bible to see all the humane ways God gave for killing oxen, lambs, goats, all kinds of birds....in fact, understanding why God required the killing of animals is key to understanding who and what God is about.

If we're not supposed to eat meat, why does it taste so good?

Answer 10

There's nothing wrong with eating meat. Animals eat each other and we need protein in our diets. Our teeth and digestive systems are designed so that we can eat meat. When you eat a vegetable, it dies, too.