Whats so wrong with eating meat?

Question

Humans are omnivores. Animals eat other animals so what is wrong if we do. I mean im fine if you are a vegetarian but i have had people get mad at me just because i eat meat.

the only reason i am asking is because a person my friend knows literally yelled at me when i said i hunt and fish.

Answer 1

Morally? Nothing, in my opinion, unless you're very over sensitive. However, morals lie in everyones opinion, so I can't say there's nothing wrong with it morally, full stop, because some people hold different opinions about morals. I will say though, that they almost always die instantly, and that over here using hormones to induce unnatural growth and size, etc, is illegal. I gather it isn't over the pond though.

I stick by the 'humans are made to eat meat argument'. In my opinion, that's perfectly justifiable. In some people's, it isn't. That we are made to eat meat is shown in our physiology, and as such meat is quite beneficial.
In any case, the domestication of cows and other food animals has helped their species a lot. While their predecessors have died out they have, with human help, thrived. We give them veterinary care, give them food, and protect them from predators. (I realise battery farmed chickens aren't quite the same)

Nutritionally? More the other way round to what veggies claim, cutting out meat is seldom any good for you. Vegetarianism's not a *proven* healthier lifestyle, or a healthier lifestyle at all. There are people, like PETA, who will tell you that, but it's not strictly true. There are benefits to a veggie diet (most having nothing to do with the not eating meat, but other things a veggie diet normally entails, like a wide range of fruit and veg), and there are things about a normal diet that aren't that good, but that's not the same thing. There are many more benefits to a meat eating diet than disadvantages, and there are disadvantages to a veggie diet too. Of course, for people like PETA to admit that would make them seem reasonable, and we couldn't have that.

Answer 2

There's nothing wrong with eating meat. Everyone must make their own lifestyle choice in what they eat or don't eat. Some may make that decision for moral reasons, others for health reasons, but it's always a personal choice.

However, it's not acceptable to force your lifestyle choice upon others. For vegetarians to get mad at you for eating meat, they are just as short-sighted and narrow-minded as the people who get upset at vegetarians for not eating meat. Eating meat (or not eating it) is a personal choice and no one can make that choice for anyone else.

Answer 3

If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

Sorry, that's my favorite joke.

To the question, I agree with Irina C, the way we treat stock animals is horrendous but it's a law of supply and demand. If the world didn't demand such high supply, meat suppliers could take the time and land needed to make sure a cow had a happy, full life romping thru the fields. Cattle take a lot of resources when raised naturally. It's also much more expensive. If you don't believe me, try picking up a free range turkey this coming Thanksgiving, they cost about 10x more than you're average Butterball.

You can't blame the cattle producers for giving us what we want, we can only blame ourselves.

Answer 4

There are some people who fall under the grouping of "angry" or "hardcore" vegans/vegetarians. Many of this confrontational creatures can also be found in "angry edge" groupings. [Straight edge] The remaining vegans/vegetarians normally experience feelings of great embarrassment when associated with the "angry".

The "elite vegans" have decided to display their beliefs in anger and grumpy comments made towards omnivores.
When faced with one of these unpleasant and quick to anger animals it is best to simply nod, smile and pretend to agree with their comments. Examples of this form of self defense include:
"You're right, I should also take the word of PETA as law"
"Animals -are- people too!"
"I feel bad about eating meat, please forgive me."

Answer 5

Nothing wrong, I'd like to be a vegetarian but I hate vegetables lol. So I eat meat but no frog-legs or stuff like that where the way they get the meat is just so discusting and wrong. I am totaly agains fur by the way, it's the whole circle of life to eat meat but killing animals just for their skin...that's just wrong.

Answer 6

I don't advocate the hostility. I'm sorry you have to suffer the abuse.

However...

Humans are not omnivors. Feel your teeth. Where are the sharp ones for tearing flesh? You have wide, flat, grain eating teeth. You are an herbivore who has learned to eat meat.

What is morally wrong about meat is Factory Farming. It's destroying this planet. It has turned innocent creatures into a "product." Add to that, factory farms are largely responsible for our current illegal immigrant crisis. They go to Mexico and truck in illegal immigrant labor. When it comes time to give them a raise or paid vacation, they report them to the INS.

Answer 7

I am a vegetarian, and I will tell you straight up, there is nothing morally wrong with eating meat. And I dropped it for moral reasons.

The problem isn't in the consumprion of animal flesh. The problem is the way the animals are genetically and nutritionally manipulated, neglected both physically and psychologically, and brutally killed before it becomes food.

Meat animals are not (for the most part) raised in fields, and allowed to lead complete lives. Complete lives means exceeding the minimum physical, nutritional, social, and psychological requirements of life. Not just enought food to not starve to death. I'm not saying you have to tuck your veal calves in at night and read them bedtime stories. However, it is not acceptable to confine them to crates just inches larger than their body, force them to live in their own excrement, feed them just enough that they put weight on, but keep them completely anemic to keep the meat pale. Then when they've completed their short, sad time on this earth, drag their atrophied bodies into stock trucks, cram them to the point that if they dare lay down , they'll be trampled, drag the survivors off, drive a 4 inch steel bolt through their skill and hope that they're one of the claimed 70% that will bleed out or loose consciousness in less than 10 minutes. Otherwise, they'll be slaughtered while still conscious.

THAT is what's morally wrong. Who are we to torture another creature like that? Let alone thousands upon thousands of them. No, that is not always the case. Yes, there ARE veal calves whose biggest trauma before slaughter is being separated from their mother to join the other calves elsewhere. However, they're few and far between, and it's just simpler to not eat ANY of them. And take a stand against what torture many are put through.

Besides, if nothing else, you get the chance to live a *proven* nutritionally more-healthy lifestyle.

Answer 8

theres nothing wrong at all. its a personal choice. i respect if people choose to eat meat or if they don't. and in return everyone (other than my brother -.-) respects me for being a vegetarian. it doesn't make me a bad person. and eating meat doesn't make you a bad person. =D

Answer 9

Why do you care about what other people do or do not eat?

I don't see why other people should be mad at you, either, unless you're waving it under their noses or something.

For me, chicken and eggs are literally poisonous--I'm allergic. And my cholesterol has been greatly reduced since I stopped eating other meat and lowered my dairy consumption. (I love ice cream and cheese, too.) Since my father died of a heart attack when he was 38, I care about that kind of thing.

Answer 10

Nothing!! There is absolutely nothing wrong with eating meat. And if anyone tells you otherwise, order a steak and while you're eating it in front of them, enjoy it. I mean really enjoy it. Make approving sounds like its the best thing you ever eaten. I do that all the time to my vegetarian friend whose thinks eating meat is wrong.