Is it not a cruelity to kill animals and birds for eating ?

Question

Human beings can live a healthy life without eating flesh of animals and birds. Then why are they so cruel to kill them for eating. Why Isalm, Christianity and some other religions also encourage it?

Also, if you can kill animals and birds mercilessly, do it not encourage you to kill even human beings on the context of difference of opinion or religion?

Answer 1

Yes human can live a healty life being vegan - if they take a lot of supplements. If you are ova-lacto vegetarian - where you can eat eggs and cheese - unless you are getting from an organic farm where they let the animals die of old age then there isn't any humanitarian difference between that and eating meat. (do you wear anything made of leather too)

Human beings are designed to be omnivores. To have both animal and vegetable food sources. We do eat more meat than we should but still meat is a very good concentrated source of proteins and some essential vitamins and minerals. Yes the production of beef does take resources but in some areas it is more productive to raise cattle because they can eat prarie grass and such where you could not grow crops without a lot of intense irrigation that would take away from other uses. There are compromises everywhere.

As far as humane, slaughterhouses use an electrical stun or a bolt through the animals brain - really a humane and instant death. The feedlot conditions sometimes are overcrowded and not necesarily the best but not necessarily inhumane. Hunting is usually a fairly fast kill as well. If you look how preditory animals kill thier prey it can be a very cruel and slow way to die. But that is how nature works. It may be cruel but it is necessary.

To then take the leap to kill humans because of a difference of opinion is not even comparable. There are only two reasons to kill anything - for survival and for food. Since we don't generally practice canabilism then killing another human should generally be for survival - if you are being atacked for example. The subject of warfare is on a whole different level.

Answer 2

Unfortunately dying so that something else must live is a part of the food chain. I DO feel it is unethical to kill an animal for sport or fur. I do not agree with hunting in the United States because of the availability of animals that have been already killed to sell for food. In other countries where the poverty level is high and food is scarce I can understand. An animal that must be killed for food should be put down as quickly and painlessly as possible. Although I do not agree with the way the meat industry kills the animals they prepare, I feel it would be worse to allow the sacrifice to go unused.

Life itself is Holy. Making judgements on levels of inteligence and so on is what is known as rationalization. Don't kill needlessly.

Answer 3

Killing animals for food (and clothing) is not wrong.
While it's true that all of creation was once vegetarian (see Genesis), after the fall (when Adam and Eve sinned) the world changed and people and animals started eating meat. God Himself made the first kill, skinning an animal to clothe Adam and Eve when they got kicked out of the Garden. You'll also find that He gave man dominance over the animals and told us to use them for food, clothing, etc.
Killing animals for fun is a whole other issue. I don't agree with sport killing and I believe there's a verse somewhere in the Bible where God told man not to be unecessarily cruel to animals. I've only seen that verse once.. You can probably look it up at bible.com or some other Bible site.
But no, it's not "cruel" or wrong to eat meat.

Answer 4

If all humans on earth were to become vegetarians there would be famine and the earth it self would be destroyed. Humans and animals would die in high rates within a (relatively) short period of time. There would be no need to kill animals or people, the vegetarianism would take care of all by it self.

I also think it’s pretty much a fact that humans didn’t become “intelligent” until after they started including some fish and meat into their diet.

The problem is over doing it. Another problem is those who kill for sports or for no purpose at all.

Answer 5

Should that kind of cruelty to animals be punished? If that's the case, should we punish all the animals out there who kill other animals?

It's foolish to say that people can live healthily on a strict vegitarian diet. No one hypoglycemic or diabetic would ever be able to get enough protien, even with soy, lentils, or beans. I'm sure there are many other illnesses/conditions that would greatly suffer with a meat-free diet.

It might work for some people, but it can definitely not work for all.

And, no, killing animals for food does *not* encourage one to kill a human. U_U I don't know where you get your logic.

Feel free to email for any reason.

Answer 6

The real moral issue behind meat is this: if 10% of america were vegetarian, enough resources would be freed up to feed the entire world. One cow eats an entire ton of grain in a year, and only produces a few bits of meat. If it's a cow for leather, then all the meat is wasted.

Most companies slaughter animals instead of killing them humanely.

Answer 7

Let us remember - plants are also living beings. They have feelings, as proven by science, and can be affected by touch, noise, etc.

So, if its not good to kill an animal to eat, then why is it okay to kill a plant to eat? This is why I cant stand vegetarians....they kill plant life and think that makes them better than carnivors.....

Animals kill each other for food. Why cant man? Man is an animal too!

Answer 8

Yet nobody seems to care about vegetables.

Imagine the horror a head of lettuce feels as it is torn from the earth, and then peeled apart layer by layer before being chopped to peices. Potatoes, still very much alive, thrust into boiling water or excruciatingly hot ovens. Or perhaps the nightmare suffered by billions of blades of grass every year as they are violently mutilated and left to suffer in the name of lawn aesthetics can help you understand.

Could you stand to see your pet dog or cat treated this way??? If you could you've lost touch with any sence of awareness and compassion for life in general, and may have sociopathic tendencies. Carriots, Peas, even celery and other plants have been shown to register fear and pain!

Barbaric, profit focused industrial scale plant slaughter needs a loud compassionate voice and protection from intelligent rational humans who have empathy for vegetables who feel emotion and suffer, and have become nothing more than 'non thinking, non feeling' living peices of salad for huge profit. They can't tell us how they feel and have been completely ****** over by greedy corporations. We, who are the only people who can help tighten legislation towards the humane treatment of all farm products, should fight for tougher laws and more humane treatment on all farms.

I'll never stop eating my beloved baked potato, but the idea of tubors suffering on an imaginable scale when they could easily be electrocuted before ripping them from the ground and thrusting them into a plastic sack alive defies all rational logic and reason.
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Answer 9

If it were wrong, why is it possible? It is wrong to eat a stone because it provides no value. Why is it wrong to eat an animal? Because you say so?

Is it wrong for a lion to eat a gazelle?

Read a book on evolution. It was when humans started eating marrow from bones that they began to develop large brains. Who am I to second-guess nature? And who are you to elevate an animal above a plant?

And while you're at it, ask yourself this: what survival benefit would be conveyed to any organism that routinely engaged in cannibalism?

Answer 10

It is not a cruelity to kill animals and birds for eating as long as they are not allowed to suffer. After the flood, God included animals as our food.


[Gen 9:3] Every creature that is alive shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants.

Footnote:

[1] Antediluvian creatures, including man, are depicted as vegetarians (Genesis 1:29-30), becoming carnivorous only after the flood.