Vegetarians?

Question

Why is it that vegetarians think that there is something wrong with eating meat? God gave man control over the animals at the beginning of the bible. If you're not Christian, humans also have omnivore dentition. We were meant to eat animals.

I think it's kind of hypocritical that they won't eat meat when there are starving people all over the world that would just about die for a peice of beef or chicken. What kind of a humanitarian is that?

Answer 1

"Dominion" means guardianship in the Bible. I hate it when people use the Bible to justify their cruelty. The whole point of Christianity is compassion, is it not?
The human body is an amazing organism and can adapt to all sorts of conditions. Our intestines show we are better suited for plant foods. Carnivores have very short intestinal tracts so the meat can move through fast. Human intestines are long like herbivores. When we eat meat, it takes days to make it's journey. Fiber-rich foods are essential in helping food pass before toxins build up. Meat and dairy products have no fiber.
If world hunger concerns you, I'd recommend eating less meat. We could feed the world on what we feed to cows. Meat is an inefficient food source. The environmental damage caused by factory farming seems like a more humanitarian concern.
My recommendation to you is educate yourself. You seem to have given this a lot of thought.

Answer 2

Not everyone who is a vegitarian is religious, so that kind of strikes that statement.

I am atheist. I became a vegitarian out of protest for the treatment of the animals pervious to their slaughter. I simply cannot understand why chickens have to be kept in crates so small that they cannot move with their beaks BURNED off.

Any nutrition granted by eatting meat can be obtained by eatting plants.

So far as speaking of being "hypocritical". It isn't even by definition. It is unfortunate to say the least that there are people starving all over the world. But, I fail to see how our reluctance to kill animals and eat them is the problem. I would say it is much more of a breakdown of the world's humanitarianism and lack of ability to have a connected social service. More a political fault than anything.

Answer 3

Some people, myself included, become vegetarians for health reasons. I gave up eating meat the same as someone might give up eating fried foods. Since then I have come across alot of information that gives me a conscious about the treatment of animals, etc. But my initial decision was not based on these facts.

Answer 4

actually, vegetarianism is one of the best ways to curb world hunger. instead of feeding grains to animals, give it directly to people.

"To produce a single hamburger patty, it takes enough fossil fuel to drive a small car 25 miles and enough water for 17 showers. The production of one pound of beef requires 2,500 gallons of water. It takes less water to produce a year's worth of food for a pure vegetarian than to produce one month's food for a meat-eater."
~justeatveggies.com

12 pounds of grain are put into producing 1 pound of beef. and all the starving people don't care what they eat. i'd also say they're beyond cravings and preferences.

and i'm not an xian, but i'll play along. god gave humans "dominion" over animals. the queen of england has dominion over her subjects (by definition). what would happen is she ran around injecting them with hormones, rubbing makeup in their eyes to "test it out", cutting off their feet, cramming them into boxes, dismembering them on inefficient machinery, grinding up some and feeding it to the other people, and eating them with a lovely steak sauce? dominion doesn't permit abuse, it implies protection and care.

Answer 5

How you feel if you seen Jesus kill animal?Who teaching us to love people. Eat or not to eat is our choice. Do we make right decision before eat or not to eat? Yes, i agree God give man to control over the animals, but when i read thru the word what i feel is God give Human to take care those animal and earth.Not killing them and eat as you like.

Answer 6

Vegetarians are thinking about the feelings of the animal. Personally, I believe, although morally and mentally to human criteria unacceptable, that animals (humans being in the animal kingdom) were meant to kill, where meant to eat, lust, get angry and occassionally get into squabbles. It's just what's been put into our genetics since cavemen times as defense mechanisms to help us survive. Vegetarians feel that although not always in logic, that animals are lives just like humans, I agree with that, and that they should not be killed because they feel pain and fear and it's extremely sick and demented to them, in which I am not so much in agreement with, per se. I realize that pain, death, and dying must be the most unpleasant states to ever be in, but I also realize that this was never a fair world. I've always thought mentally never to worry about what I couldn't control. Vegetarians can control their diet and that is their right. I'm not mad at them for it. It simply gets annoying when they harrass other people for theirs. It's a good cause which wont soon change, which does get annoying. It comes with accepting the world and it's variety of personalities. I don't believe we were given control over animals as much as the wits to outsmart them which eventually lead to control them as we do now. Humans are omnivoires much like our primate cousins. It's not often known that chimpanzee's also eat other smaller monkeys in addition to their diets of vegetation and insects. Humans are omnivoires. We have canines. We were meant for plants and animals. But if someone's logic tells them different and it's make them sleep better at night, I wont be mad at someone for eating only plants. Life is life. A wise native american named grandfather by the famous tracker Tom Brown Jr. once stated that all life is equal. Humans to animals to plants to cells and bacteria. Life is life. You're doing as much killing washing your hands with antibacterial soap as you are when you go hunting. Being vegetarian is still taking the lives of live living plants. Although their logic tells them different, that live creatures have emotions and feelings, studies have been taken to show that plants also do, almost in the state of Extra Sensory Perception that their stat readings acted before pain was inflicted upon the plants. Refer to my first source cited. This specific author was a Pro-Vegan who attempted to thwart the scientific analysis of a scientist who proved plants feel pain when utilizing their "stress avoidance response" sugar coating the fact that plants too do not wish to die or feel pain by stating that animal's pain is worse. Since we'll be niether a plant or animal as far as my knowledge we will never know. But we will know hunger, and as far as I see for the rest of the animal kingdom. Sympathy and Emotional action is solely a human response, Not a universal one. Stating that if we cease to eat things simply due to the fact that they feel pain and will die (which all living things do at some point or another) that we'll simply be a very hungry species of organism, rather than a humanely-perceived "good" civilization of species. In the end, it is what it is. Tradition. Meat has been around so long, in so many dishes, for so many different holidays, celebrations, and mealtimes, that it's beyond outrageous to think that at any point it would stop.

Answer 7

To me, it's about taking the life of an innocent creature. I've been a vegetarian for 3 years.

Answer 8

some people don't believe in god, idiot. plus, it doesn't matter that we were "meant" to eat animals, if we don't HAVE to, then we shouldn't, cause it is cruel.

Answer 9

coz, meat is expensive, and being veg. is much more cheaper, so they feel that they are religious.